{"id":10485,"date":"2018-09-11T14:08:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T18:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=10485"},"modified":"2019-12-30T22:39:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T03:39:14","slug":"the-fabric-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=10485","title":{"rendered":"The Fabric of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/New-WTC-Above-Clouds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10484\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/New-WTC-Above-Clouds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/New-WTC-Above-Clouds.jpg 712w, https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/New-WTC-Above-Clouds-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I flew from Boston to Salonika for a conference in early October 2001 (one of the very first international flights allowed), feeling dazed and numb but determined to do my part in re-weaving the fabric of the world. Manhattan had been briefly home, my first glimpse of the US&#8230;and in its messy, raucous, kaleidoscopic vim and vigor, the incarnation of some of the best aspects of my adopted culture. The harnessing of this wound to cynical powermongering was a second tragedy that&#8217;s still affecting the world today and has led to many of the travesties we&#8217;ve endured ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Spirits above and behind me,<br \/>\nFaces gone black, eyes burnin&#8217; bright,<br \/>\nMay their precious blood bind me,<br \/>\nLord, as I stand before your fiery light.<br \/>\n&#8212; Bruce Springsteen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JOm-uIPzqpI\">The Rising<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image:<\/strong> One World Trade Center by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reemond.com\/\">Ryan Emond<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I flew from Boston to Salonika for a conference in early October 2001 (one of the very first international flights allowed), feeling dazed and numb but determined to do my part in re-weaving the fabric of the world. Manhattan had been briefly home, my first glimpse of the US&#8230;and in its messy, raucous, kaleidoscopic vim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[224,225,226],"class_list":["post-10485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-9-11","tag-bruce-springsteen","tag-the-rising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}