{"id":11090,"date":"2011-09-11T10:52:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T14:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11090"},"modified":"2011-09-11T10:52:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T14:52:36","slug":"qotd-comparing-september-11-2001-to-december-7-1941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/11\/qotd-comparing-september-11-2001-to-december-7-1941\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Comparing September 11, 2001 to December 7, 1941"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>On Dec. 8, 1951, the day after the 10th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, <em>The New York Times<\/em>\u2018 front page made a one-paragraph mention of commemorations the day before, when the paper\u2019s page had not mentioned the anniversary. The Dec. 8 <em>Washington Post<\/em>\u2018s front page noted no commemorations the previous day. On Dec. 7, the page had featured a familiar 10-year old photograph of the burning battleships. It seems to have been published because a new process made possible printing it for the first time in color. At the bottom of the page, a six-paragraph story began: \u201cGreater Washington today will mark the tenth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack by testing its air raid defenses.\u201d The story explained that \u201cthe sirens are part of a \u2018paper bombing\u2019 of Washington\u201d that would include \u201cmock attacks by atom bombs and high explosives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting question is not how America in 2011 is unlike America in 2001, but how it is unlike it was in 1951. The intensity of today\u2019s focus on the 10th anniversary of 9\/11 testifies to more than the multiplication of media ravenous for content, and to more than today\u2019s unhistorical and self-dramatizing tendency to think that eruptions of evil are violations of a natural entitlement to happiness. It also represents the search for refuge from a decade defined by unsatisfactory responses to 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>George F. Will, <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2011\/09\/11\/george-f-will-commemorating-the-past-to-forget-the-present\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Commemorating the past to forget the present&#8221;, <em>National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2011-09-11<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Dec. 8, 1951, the day after the 10th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, The New York Times\u2018 front page made a one-paragraph mention of commemorations the day before, when the paper\u2019s page had not mentioned the anniversary. The Dec. 8 Washington Post\u2018s front page noted no commemorations the previous day. On Dec. 7, the page [&hellip;]<\/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":""},"categories":[7,28,41,13,230],"tags":[213,256],"class_list":["post-11090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media","category-quotations","category-usa","category-ww2","tag-newspapers","tag-september11"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2SS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11091,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11090\/revisions\/11091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}