{"id":308,"date":"2007-09-11T09:04:14","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T16:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/11\/remembering-911\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T09:22:32","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T16:22:32","slug":"remembering-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/11\/remembering-911\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[photopress:alleba_sept_11_3.gif,full,centered]<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been 6 years.  I can still recall quite vividly the time my friend was buzzing and begging frantically on our apartment intercom to let her in.  I had no idea what was going on until I walked out on our street on 6th Avenue and saw the twin towers completely gone.  There was a thick cloud of smoke that looked as if an atomic bomb had just exploded.  New York City had been attacked!  For the two years that I&#8217;ve been in the city, it was only a month before 9\/11 that I decided to go up the towers.  Good thing that I did.  New York was and is still the most beautiful city in the world.  It&#8217;s taught me to appreciate life, family, friends, not to mention history, the arts, culture and wow, the food.  Next to where I live here in Davao City, I consider New York as my second home.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to a reunion next year!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">I &lt;3 NY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Map illustrating how close I was to the catastrophe:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=d&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;saddr=290+6th+avenue+ny&amp;daddr=world+trade+center&amp;sll=40.730771,-74.00558&amp;sspn=0.013496,0.023861&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=40.721055,-74.002525&amp;spn=0.02129,0.01655&amp;om=1&amp;output=embed&amp;s=AARTsJqVP8xoZQ3kr31GsC9jGuJ_f6BGjw\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=d&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;saddr=290+6th+avenue+ny&amp;daddr=world+trade+center&amp;sll=40.730771,-74.00558&amp;sspn=0.013496,0.023861&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=40.721055,-74.002525&amp;spn=0.02129,0.01655&amp;om=1&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[photopress:alleba_sept_11_3.gif,full,centered] Can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been 6 years. I can still recall quite vividly the time my friend was buzzing and begging frantically on our apartment intercom to let her in. I had no idea what was going on until I walked out on our street on 6th Avenue and saw the twin towers completely gone.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/11\/remembering-911\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remembering 9\/11<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJQs-4Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}