{"id":513,"date":"2001-09-13T22:53:09","date_gmt":"2001-09-13T22:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2020-08-18T22:53:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T22:53:31","slug":"september-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2001\/09\/13\/september-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"September Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You have probably all read enough about the events of September 11, and therefore I don&#8217;t need to describe them here. Check the web. Look hard enough and you&#8217;ll find images and eyewitness accounts that they don&#8217;t play on television. This Century&#8217;s Hindenburg. Argh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first we heard about it was when Anna rang at around 7:30am to say not to worry, Josh was ok. Of course we had no clue what she was talking about. &#8220;Go turn on the TV to CNN,&#8221; she replied. We did, and we basically stayed glued to the set for the next few hours. Certainly nobody at work expected anything productive to get done that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two days later as I write this and the sliding scale of relative misery has been altered for the foreseeable future. If I try to write about pleasant things I feel guilty, and if I write about unpleasant things I feel like I&#8217;m complaining about relative insignificance. Therefore, better not write about anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a brighter note, as I write this I am sitting in the lounge listening to the new Yes album, _Magnification_, for the first time. There&#8217;s something about listening to music the first time &#8211; you can only do it once, for a start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday evening I saw my first Black Widow spider.&nbsp; Erk. She had decided to make her web in the left rear wheel hollow of our car, in the garage. After admiring her fine black body and red hour glass marking, I confess I persuaded her not to nest in the car by swotting her dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I&#8217;m a little more cautious venturing into the garage with bare feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have probably all read enough about the events of September 11, and therefore I don&#8217;t need to describe them here. Check the web. Look hard enough and you&#8217;ll find images and eyewitness accounts that they don&#8217;t play on television. This Century&#8217;s Hindenburg. Argh. The first we heard about it was when Anna rang at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}