{"id":5225,"date":"2005-09-11T09:11:19","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T13:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5225"},"modified":"2005-09-11T09:11:19","modified_gmt":"2005-09-11T13:11:19","slug":"sunday-discussion-group-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/sunday-discussion-group-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Discussion Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been four years since the day that, especially at the time, was supposed to have changed everything. As Condoleezza Rice put it in October 2003, &#8220;No less than December 7, 1941, September 11, 2001, forever changed the lives of every American.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s topic: Did it?<\/p>\n<p>Four years after the worst attack in American history, how are our lives different? Did 9\/11 bring a lasting sense of unity? Remind us that we&#8217;re all in this together? Bring the nation together behind a common goal? Or shared values? Or a sense of shared sacrifice?<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Kaplan had <a href=\"http:\/\/tnr.com\/doc.mhtml?i=20050912&#038;s=kaplan091205\">an article<\/a> in The New Republic recently that explained, among other things, that 9\/11 did not have an effect military recruitment, rates of community service or volunteer work, charitable donations, attendance at houses of worship, or interest in the news (foreign or domestic).<\/p>\n<p>So, noting the four-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, was this the day that changed everything? And if so, what, exactly, has changed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been four years since the day that, especially at the time, was supposed to have changed everything. As Condoleezza Rice put it in October 2003, &#8220;No less than December 7, 1941, September 11, 2001, forever changed the lives of every American.&#8221; Today&#8217;s topic: Did it? Four years after the worst attack in American history, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}