{"id":4245,"date":"2018-09-11T11:09:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T11:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/11\/911-seventeen-years-later\/"},"modified":"2018-09-11T11:09:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T11:09:19","slug":"911-seventeen-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/11\/911-seventeen-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 Seventeen Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The morning of 9\/11 was a beautiful, dry Arizona morning. &#0160;Back from a hard run, I flipped on the TV while doing some cool-down exercises only to see one of the planes crash into one of the towers. I knew right away what was going on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I said to my wife, &quot;Well, two good things will come of this: Gary Condit will be out of the news forever, and finally something will be done about our porous southern border.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I was right about the first, but not about the second.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Do you remember&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/attorneys-for-man-charged-with-killing-chandra-levy-say-gary-condit-has-history-of-aggressive-sex\/2016\/05\/19\/202a27c0-1dcd-11e6-9c81-4be1c14fb8c8_story.html\">Gary Condit<\/a>, the California congressman? &#0160;Succumbing as so many do to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K7r-V1id038\">the fire down below<\/a>&#0160;Condit initiated an extramarital affair with the federal intern, Chandra Levy. &#0160;When Levy was found murdered, Condit&#39;s link to Levy proved his undoing. &#0160;The cable shows were awash with the Condit-Levy affair that summer of 2001. &#0160;9\/11 put an end to the soap opera.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">But it didn&#39;t do &#0160;much for the security of the southern border.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">We got lucky in November, 2016. Now do your bit to vote down the obstructionsts and defeatists, whether living or dead, legal or not,&#0160; this coming November.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning of 9\/11 was a beautiful, dry Arizona morning. &#0160;Back from a hard run, I flipped on the TV while doing some cool-down exercises only to see one of the planes crash into one of the towers. I knew right away what was going on. I said to my wife, &quot;Well, two good things &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/11\/911-seventeen-years-later\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;9\/11 Seventeen Years Later&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}