{"id":1375,"date":"2012-06-28T09:33:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T15:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2012-06-27T19:53:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T01:53:26","slug":"30-day-picture-challenge-day-21-a-picture-of-something-you-wish-you-could-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/30-day-picture-challenge-day-21-a-picture-of-something-you-wish-you-could-forget\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Day Picture Challenge Day 21 \u2013 A Picture Of Something You Wish You Could Forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/QUESADA_McFARLANE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2030\" title=\"QUESADA_McFARLANE\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/QUESADA_McFARLANE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/QUESADA_McFARLANE.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/QUESADA_McFARLANE-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It was a normal Tuesday morning at work when the Consultant stopped by my desk to say that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center and that we were under attack. \u00a0Little did I know that for once, Chicken Little was right and the sky really was falling.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the morning was a blur. \u00a0Updates were hard to get through traditional sources and most of the news I was getting was from the old Warren Ellis forum on Delphi and whatever incarnation of the Bendis Board was up at the time. \u00a0I tried to go out to my car to get an update from the Howard Stern show, which at the time was on a one hour tape delay. \u00a0Unfortunately, Chicago was one of the few markets that cut away from the show in order to simulcast a news station.<\/p>\n<p>We all know what happens next: the Pentagon gets hit, another flight crashes in Pennsylvania, and, eventually, the buildings fall. \u00a0It&#8217;s a day that, for a little while, unified the country, but at great cost. \u00a0A day we would all like to forget. \u00a0A day we never will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a normal Tuesday morning at work when the Consultant stopped by my desk to say that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center and that we were under attack. \u00a0Little did I know that for once, Chicken Little was right and the sky really was falling. Most of the morning was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[650,2375,41,2376,849,2377,322,1410,2374],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkeytalk","tag-30dpc","tag-2375","tag-bendis-board","tag-delphi","tag-howard-stern","tag-pentagon","tag-the-consultant","tag-warren-ellis","tag-world-trade-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}