{"id":57,"date":"2006-09-11T08:37:37","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T13:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/11\/9-11\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:09:16","slug":"9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/11\/9-11\/","title":{"rendered":"9-11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year when this date rolls around I think about where I was when this horrible event took place.\u00a0 We were living Dallas, I was taking Austin to preschool and my cell phone rang.\u00a0 It was Andy, &#8220;Have you heard the news?\u00a0 All hell is breaking loose.&#8221;\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t sure if I should take Austin to school but decided to go ahead- I sat in the class with a couple other parents, every one seemed shocked and quiet.\u00a0 I went home and turned on the news.\u00a0 The images, just unbelievable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath a lot of emails circulated, I&#8217;m not sure who sent this to me but I watch it every year.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"911\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heartlight.org\/prayerforthenation\/iprayforpeace.html\" target=\"_blank\">I pray for peace<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and I cry.\u00a0 And I hug my kiddos a little longer and my pups a little tighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year when this date rolls around I think about where I was when this horrible event took place.\u00a0 We were living Dallas, I was taking Austin to preschool and my cell phone rang.\u00a0 It was Andy, &#8220;Have you heard the news?\u00a0 All hell is breaking loose.&#8221;\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t sure if I should take Austin to school but decided to go ahead- I sat in the class with a couple other parents, every one seemed shocked and quiet.\u00a0 I went home and turned on the news.\u00a0 The images, just unbelievable.\u00a0 In the aftermath a lot of emails circulated, I&#8217;m not sure who sent this to me but I watch it every year. I pray for peace and I cry.\u00a0 And I hug my kiddos a little longer and my pups a little tighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20795,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/20795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}