{"id":941,"date":"2009-09-11T10:52:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T18:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=941"},"modified":"2009-09-11T10:52:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T18:52:44","slug":"911-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/11\/911-2\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure everyone is writing about 9\/11 today; I&#8217;ll add some of my random thoughts about life.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that war and violence is a part of this life. Our hearts are full of selfishness, impure motives, and wickedness; there can be no peace. Whether it is global peace, national peace, or inner peace, there is no utopia. We are always on the edge of another tragedy -bombing, fatal car accident, terminal cancer, child abuse, rape, murder, the list goes on.<\/p>\n<p>However, I am glad to have grown up where war and personal violence has not touched me. I live a suburban life with Little League and air conditioning. I cannot stomach blood and gore of any sort, real or Hollywood. I stayed away from watching The Passion and Saving Private Ryan (except for those few scenes always shown as an illustration for sermons).<\/p>\n<p>Yet, I still take many of my comforts for granted. Heck, I complain when my internet connection is down for an hour, and when I can&#8217;t find good Mexican food for lunch.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll stop here and go do something positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure everyone is writing about 9\/11 today; I&#8217;ll add some of my random thoughts about life. I believe that war and violence is a part of this life. Our hearts are full of selfishness, impure motives, and wickedness; there can be no peace. Whether it is global peace, national peace, or inner peace, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-on-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}