{"id":28760,"date":"2026-09-11T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28760"},"modified":"2026-09-11T17:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:00:34","slug":"the-ceremony-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28760","title":{"rendered":"The ceremony downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am glad that in the end everyone in New York City came together in a respectful way to honor and pay their respects &#8212; both to the victims 25 years ago, and to the courageous firefighters who tried to help them.<\/p>\n<p>Even Rudy Giuliani managed to move past his Islamophobic hate-mongering and share a respectful moment with our Mayor. For him that was a stretch goal, and I have to give him credit for putting aside the poisonous and deeply un-American MAGA playbook long enough to remember what actual patriotism looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am glad that in the end everyone in New York City came together in a respectful way to honor and pay their respects &#8212; both to the victims 25 years ago, and to the courageous firefighters who tried to help them. Even Rudy Giuliani managed to move past his Islamophobic hate-mongering and share a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28760\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The ceremony downtown&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28761,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28760\/revisions\/28761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}