{"id":1389,"date":"2016-09-11T23:32:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T05:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2016-09-11T23:32:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T05:32:55","slug":"911-remembering-both-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 &#8211; Remembering both of them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 15th anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks on New York City and the Pentagon. Glenn Reynolds has his remembrance <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/243586\/\">here<\/a>, including a link to his <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/archive\/oldarchives\/2001_09_09_instapundit_archive.html#5613174\">original coverage<\/a> of the events.<\/p>\n<p>Esquire magazine has an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/a48031\/the-falling-man-tom-junod\/\">the falling man<\/a>, whose picture has been downplayed and hidden (to the extent that one <em>can<\/em> hide something on the internet). It&#8217;s not the only one. I remember seeing video of Palestinians dancing in the street and handing candy out to children in celebration. You can&#8217;t find that anymore. You <em>can<\/em> find denials that it ever happened, though.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also the 4th anniversary of the attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. All the more tragic because it was , and I doubt that we&#8217;ll ever have a better explanation for the U. S. government&#8217;s response than, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2016\/09\/11\/what-benghazi-attack-taught-me-about-hillary-clinton.html\">feckless Democrats<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 15th anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks on New York City and the Pentagon. Glenn Reynolds has his remembrance here, including a link to his original coverage of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}