{"id":728,"date":"2003-11-21T02:52:09","date_gmt":"2003-11-20T21:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/728"},"modified":"2003-11-21T02:52:09","modified_gmt":"2003-11-20T21:52:09","slug":"memorial-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/728","title":{"rendered":"Memorial finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today they announced the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowermanhattan.info\/rebuild\/memorial_design\/default.asp\">8 finalists<\/a> for the memorial at the WTC site.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowermanhattan.info\/rebuild\/memorial_design\/files\/fin7.html\">This one<\/a> made me cry.  I also liked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowermanhattan.info\/rebuild\/memorial_design\/files\/fin5.html\">this one<\/a>, but I think it&#8217;s impractical.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowermanhattan.info\/rebuild\/memorial_design\/files\/fin4.html\">This one<\/a> is also very moving.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the most striking is the reflecting pools.  If you&#8217;ve ever been to the <a href=\"http:\/\/thewall-usa.com\/wallpics\/wallnew2.htm\">Vietnam Memorial Wall<\/a> in Washington, D.C., you know how a quiet, austere monument can be incredibly moving.  The reflecting pools, which retain the footprint of the towers, looks like it will have the same kind of quiet dignity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today they announced the 8 finalists for the memorial at the WTC site. This one made me cry. I also liked this one, but I think it&#8217;s impractical. This one is also very moving. I think that the most striking is the reflecting pools. If you&#8217;ve ever been to the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}