{"id":6657,"date":"2011-08-16T07:26:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T12:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6657"},"modified":"2011-08-16T07:26:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T12:26:49","slug":"the_day_everything_changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/08\/the_day_everything_changed.html","title":{"rendered":"The Day Everything Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For most people before 9\/11, the salient storyline about the FDNY was probably something along the lines of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1998\/09\/14\/nyregion\/island-that-sees-no-racism-enclave-queens-defends-float-way-life.html\">racist floats<\/a> &#8212; not necessarily because people assume the worst about firefighters but rather because that was just what was in the news about firefighters. So it&#8217;s a nice reminder that even in the traumatic aftermath of 9\/11 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2011\/08\/16\/2011-08-16_exvulcan_society_prez_testifies_racism_prevalent_among_bravest.html\">people still found ways to stay stupid<\/a>, as one captain reminisced during the federal discrimination trial about recruiting practices that is happening now:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The New York Fire Department is so racism-riddled that just weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, someone defaced a flyer honoring the black Bravest who died, an FDNY captain testified Monday.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most people before 9\/11, the salient storyline about the FDNY was probably something along the lines of racist floats &#8212; not necessarily because people assume the worst about firefighters but rather because that was just what was in the news about firefighters. So it&#8217;s a nice reminder that even in the traumatic aftermath of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6658,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions\/6658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}