{"id":53925,"date":"2021-09-11T07:22:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T14:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=53925"},"modified":"2021-09-03T20:34:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T03:34:27","slug":"remember-september-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/remember-september-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember September 11"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What Comes Next, 2001-2002<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I thought about not writing this post this year. Then I thought about the recent takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban and all the changes that have taken place in the Middle East since 9\/11. My quilt ‘What Comes Next’ still reflects my vision of the future.<\/p>\n

In a New York Times article<\/a> I saw this week, the photo says “more of the same” to me. Members of the Taliban leadership sit in a room in the home of the former Afghan intelligence chief in Kabul. They are all men. They have guns in a room that looks like it once was a place where people sat and talked before a fancy dinner.<\/p>\n

I don’t see anyone doing anything different. People fight each other for power. They destroy everything and then try to govern the rubble. Families are broken apart; cities are ruined and so many people have died since 2001. I don’t see the point anymore. Did we get justice for those on the planes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought about not writing this post this year. Then I thought about the recent takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban and all the changes that have taken place in the Middle East since 9\/11. My quilt ‘What Comes Next’ still reflects my vision of the future. In a New York Times article I saw … Continue reading “Remember September 11”<\/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":[496],"tags":[450],"class_list":["post-53925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-496","tag-political-quilts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53925","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=53925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53927,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53925\/revisions\/53927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}