{"id":6135,"date":"2011-09-11T08:08:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T12:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=6135"},"modified":"2011-09-11T08:15:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T12:15:06","slug":"last-responder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/last-responder","title":{"rendered":"Last Responder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to write some depressing remembrance about 9\/11 for the 10th anniversary, but here&#8217;s the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/revelation\">best thing I wrote about 9\/11<\/a>, a post from 2009&#8217;s anniversary. I don&#8217;t think I can improve on it, so much as riff. (Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wendung\" target=\"_blank\">something else<\/a> I wrote about the towers, from 2005.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking of getting my &#8220;9.11.01 Never Forget&#8221; tattoo removed or covered over. I think I&#8217;m ready to forget.<\/p>\n<p>I read today&#8217;s installment of <em>Cul de Sac<\/em> and laughed for a while. Thanks, Mr. Thompson:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/\/culdesac\/2011\/09\/11\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/cds091111.gif?w=525\" alt=\"Cul de Sac\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do something good today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to write some depressing remembrance about 9\/11 for the 10th anniversary, but here&#8217;s the\u00a0best thing I wrote about 9\/11, a post from 2009&#8217;s anniversary. I don&#8217;t think I can improve on it, so much as riff. (Here&#8217;s something else I wrote about the towers, from 2005.) I&#8217;ve been thinking of getting my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/last-responder\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Last Responder&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,40],"tags":[847,1347],"class_list":["post-6135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-music","tag-gillian-welch","tag-richard-thompson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1AX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":363,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/you-too","url_meta":{"origin":6135,"position":0},"title":"You, Too","author":"Gil","date":"September 11, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I spent the first anniversary of Sept. 11 walking around NYC with my girlfriend at the time, taking pictures, listening to the wind, and helping her get an \"I Love NYC\" tattoo on the back of her neck. 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