{"id":40018,"date":"2013-09-12T02:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T02:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_pittsburgh_post-gazette_editorial-9_11_fallout_americans_must_take_stock\/"},"modified":"2013-09-12T02:00:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T02:00:53","slug":"a_pittsburgh_post-gazette_editorial-9_11_fallout_americans_must_take_stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40018","title":{"rendered":"A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial&#8211;9\/11 fallout: Americans must take stock of threats to freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York, Washington and Somerset County by al-Qaida terrorists reminds the United States of the life-changing aspects of what happened that day.<\/p>\n<p>It is useful that Americans are probably more vigilant as a result of the fatal assaults. Unfortunately, repeated words of caution and fear are frequently used by politicians and others to further their own ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>The length of the ensuing Afghanistan War and the Iraq War, with the loss of life and expenditure of resources, is attributable to the 9\/11 attacks. It is inconceivable that the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama could have initiated or maintained either conflict if there had been no 9\/11 and resulting U.S. insecurity&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/stories\/opinion\/editorials\/911-fallout-americans-must-take-stock-of-the-threat-to-freedom-702772\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York, Washington and Somerset County by al-Qaida terrorists reminds the United States of the life-changing aspects of what happened that day. It is useful that Americans are probably more<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40018\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,133,114,151,148,105,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-terrorism","category-urbancity-life-and-issues","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}