{"id":252,"date":"2012-07-02T21:01:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T01:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2012-07-02T21:01:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T01:01:06","slug":"opening-the-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Opening the folder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>I have been thinking a lot about the people and items within the folders handed out to us on Saturday. The victim assigned to our team was Robert King Jr. \u00a0He was a firefighter, father of three and a woodworker. (Born the same year as me.) The task at hand &#8211;regardless of the final destination of our work&#8211; feels weighty. The families are entrusting important memories to us. I don&#8217;t want to seem overly dramatic here. Yet when you look at the folder and the materials one mother took the time to assemble, it makes you stop for a moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I like the personal nature of the 9\/11 Living Memorial. It reminds you that there are thousands of stories to be told about 9\/11. And as Mary mentioned in her talk, it&#8217;s not just the families of the victims. The survivors&#8217; stories should be documented as well. The gentleman mentioned by Mary who felt compelled to carry around a parachute in case of future attacks was particularly startling.<\/p>\n<p>I would guess that as you get deeper into this project, some of the shock goes away, but for the time being it continues to be top of mind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been thinking a lot about the people and items within the folders handed out to us on Saturday. The victim assigned to our team was Robert King Jr. \u00a0He was a firefighter, father of three and a woodworker. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/?p=252\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lauretta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}