{"id":3683,"date":"2019-10-21T23:33:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T06:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2019-11-12T21:29:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T04:29:32","slug":"new-york-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/10\/21\/new-york-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I climb the subway steps into the abundant sunshine. The weather is warm and it\u2019s just another September day. Or so I think\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Paper is floating in the air; the sky darkens and desks tremble. Nearby buildings disappear in clouds of smoke. I watch wide eyed from the fourteenth-floor window across from the World Trade Center. Screams are unbearable and angels fall with a thunderous thump to the ground. My heart pounds and I can\u2019t breathe. I don\u2019t comprehend the horror; the fire, blackness, death.<\/p>\n<p>The towers collapse, but eighteen years later we&#8217;re strong for the victims and their families.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I climb the subway steps into the abundant sunshine. The weather is warm and it\u2019s just another September day. Or so I think\u2026 Paper is floating in the air; the sky darkens and desks tremble. Nearby buildings disappear in clouds of smoke. I watch wide eyed from the fourteenth-floor window across from the World Trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4652,520,1587,3907,2626,295,7457,2255,781,3555,41,749,4944,5521,1383,3456,2124,3804,1736,2234,3783,1344,6971,5604,34,1646,1353,1841,8256],"class_list":["post-3683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-air","tag-angels","tag-blackness","tag-buildings","tag-cloud","tag-death","tag-desks","tag-families","tag-fire","tag-ground","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heart","tag-horror","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-new-york","tag-paper","tag-screams","tag-september","tag-sky","tag-smoke","tag-steps","tag-subway","tag-sunshine","tag-thump","tag-towers","tag-victims","tag-weather","tag-window","tag-world-trade-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3711,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions\/3711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}