{"id":707,"date":"2011-05-07T15:53:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T23:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikevarley.com\/?p=707"},"modified":"2011-05-07T15:55:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T23:55:37","slug":"on-osama-bin-laden-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;On Osama Bin Laden, 2011&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GViEgJdY96k&amp;feature\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GViEgJdY96k&amp;feature\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div>Last Sunday night, upon hearing the news of Osama Bin Laden&#8217;s death via midnight text message, I went down to Ground Zero to experience the moment. \u00a0It was a very complicated place down there that night, joy and patriotism mixing with sorrow and death in a way I&#8217;ve never before experienced.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>I almost didn&#8217;t bring my camera, but I thought I&#8217;d regret it if I didn&#8217;t. \u00a0I&#8217;ve spent this past week using spare time and sleep time to mold that footage along with words and music into something equal parts timely and long reaching. \u00a0It aims to both capture my impressions without invalidating others&#8217; emotions and note the day&#8217;s profundity that we might gain from tragedy. \u00a0A fine line to tread, to be sure, and I hope you find it meets its mark. \u00a0If you do, please pass the film along to others you think might enjoy it.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>As always, thank you for your time and support.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>Mike Varley<\/div>\n\t\t<div style=\"float:right;margin:10px 10px 0px 0px;\">\r\n\t\t\t<a class=\"DiggThisButton DiggCompact\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmikevarley.com%2F%3Fp%3D707&title=%26%238220%3BOn+Osama+Bin+Laden%2C+2011%26%238221%3B\" ><span style=\"display:none\">Last Sunday night, upon hearing the news of Osama Bin Laden&#8217;s death via midnight text message, I went down to Ground Zero to experience the moment. \u00a0It was a very complicated place down there that night, joy and patriotism mixing with sorrow and death in a way I&#8217;ve never before experienced. . I almost didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/span><\/a>\t\t\r\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t\r\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday night, upon hearing the news of Osama Bin Laden&#8217;s death via midnight text message, I went down to Ground Zero to experience the moment. \u00a0It was a very complicated place down there that night, joy and patriotism mixing with sorrow and death in a way I&#8217;ve never before experienced. . I almost didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n\t\t<div style=\"float:right;margin:10px 10px 0px 0px;\">\r\n\t\t\t<a class=\"DiggThisButton DiggCompact\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmikevarley.com%2F%3Fp%3D707&title=%26%238220%3BOn+Osama+Bin+Laden%2C+2011%26%238221%3B\" ><span style=\"display:none\">Last Sunday night, upon hearing the news of Osama Bin Laden&#8217;s death via midnight text message, I went down to Ground Zero to experience the moment. \u00a0It was a very complicated place down there that night, joy and patriotism mixing with sorrow and death in a way I&#8217;ve never before experienced. . I almost didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/span><\/a>\t\t\r\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t\r\n\t\t","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[108],"tags":[117,121,114,112,109,120,119,118,113,110,111,122,116,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}