{"id":38037,"date":"2017-09-11T06:49:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T13:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=38037"},"modified":"2017-09-10T11:23:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T18:23:56","slug":"911-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/911-again\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again, 9\/11 is upon us. It sort of snuck up on me this year. There hasn’t been the hoopla surrounding the event as there was last year<\/a>. I guess there has been too much other stuff going on.<\/p>\n

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What Comes Next, 2001-2002<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What Comes Next<\/em> hangs in my workroom so I look at it every day. In some ways, it can be construed as an altar, because I do look at it every time I pass by and hope that my wish espoused in this quilt is not too far away. It isn’t just part of the background even after so many years.<\/p>\n

Like Down the Drain<\/a>, this quilt was meant to be and came together relatively quickly and with few problems.<\/p>\n

I still remember 9\/11. I had an almost 5YO. DH was out of town with our BIL on a vacation. I didn’t even know what had happened, because I don’t listen to the news before I head off to work. My mom called me in a panic telling me to turn on the TV. I didn’t want to and couldn’t imagine why it mattered. I couldn’t imagine something like the actions of 9\/11 happening.<\/p>\n

What’s worse is what came after. The wars, ISIS, Al-Quaida, the European cities under siege, the huge debt that will crush us all one day. The mess that is the Middle East. I am not saying that those things wouldn’t have happened anyway, but I think a different response was required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again, 9\/11 is upon us. It sort of snuck up on me this year. There hasn’t been the hoopla surrounding the event as there was last year. I guess there has been too much other stuff going on. What Comes Next hangs in my workroom so I look at it every day. In some … Continue reading “9\/11 Again”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[149,450,150],"class_list":["post-38037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-434","tag-art-quilts","tag-political-quilts","tag-pre-blog-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}