{"id":40945,"date":"2018-09-11T00:11:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T04:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=40945"},"modified":"2018-09-11T00:11:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T04:11:25","slug":"september-11-the-17th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/september-11-the-17th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"September 11: The 17th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventeen years ago today, I was working across the street from the World Trade Center in what was then called the World Financial Center. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve written about 9\/11 since I started this blog, from the oldest post to the most recent.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2007: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/september-11-is-here-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-slimstat=\"5\">September 11 Is Here Again<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>2008: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/laughing-while-crying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-slimstat=\"5\">Laughing While Crying<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/prodigal-bumpe-returns\/\" data-slimstat=\"5\">The Prodigal Bumpe Returns<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/91401\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-slimstat=\"5\">9\/14\/01<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2009: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/two-old-posts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-slimstat=\"5\">Three Old Posts and a Little Story<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2010: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/thoughts-on-911-the-devil-is-in-the-details\/\" data-slimstat=\"5\">Thoughts on 9\/11: The Devil Is in the Details<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2011: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/i-thought-everybody-else-was-lost\/\" data-slimstat=\"5\">I Thought Everybody Else Was Lost<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/10-years-later-essential-acts-of-witness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-slimstat=\"5\">10 Years Later: \u201cEssential Acts of Witness<\/a>,\u201d and <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/10-years-later-the-weak-horse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-slimstat=\"5\">10 Years Later: The Weak Horse<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>2012: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/september-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-slimstat=\"5\">Links to my previous posts, and a photo<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>2013: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/from-the-archives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-slimstat=\"5\">The same links to previous posts and the photo shared in 2012<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>2014: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/september-11-the-thirteenth-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-slimstat=\"5\">September 11: The Thirteenth Anniversary<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2015: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/fourteen-years-and-marcy-borders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-slimstat=\"5\">Fourteen Years, and Marcy Borders<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2016: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/15-years-after-911\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-slimstat=\"5\">15 Years After 9\/11: The Story of Rick Rescorla<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2017: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/september-11-2017-we-go-higher\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;We Go Higher&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s supposed to be cloudy with some showers in New York today, which I welcome. A particular hue of cloudless blue sky, combined with exactly the right temperature, tends to remind me of the smell of smoke &#8212; so strong that you could taste it &#8212; that hung in the air for weeks after the towers collapsed.\u00a0 On the most beautiful days, I&#8217;ll suddenly feel like I have a mouth full of ashes. Let it rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventeen years ago today, I was working across the street from the World Trade Center in what was then called the World Financial Center. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve written about 9\/11 since I started this blog, from the oldest post to the most recent. 2007: September 11 Is Here Again. 2008: Laughing While Crying, The Prodigal&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/september-11-the-17th-anniversary\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[212,49],"tags":[851,1640,1641,214,213],"class_list":["post-40945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-212","category-in-the-news","tag-851","tag-september-11","tag-september-11-memories","tag-world-financial-center","tag-world-trade-center","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40945"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40949,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40945\/revisions\/40949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}