{"id":887,"date":"2011-09-11T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T04:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/abc\/?p=887"},"modified":"2011-09-11T00:01:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T04:01:24","slug":"remembering-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/abc\/2011\/09\/11\/remembering-911\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_905\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-905\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-905\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/abc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/09\/Twin-Towers3-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Twin Towers by pingnews.com\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/abc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/09\/Twin-Towers3-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/abc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/09\/Twin-Towers3.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twin Towers by pingnews.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">September 11th<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Take a moment to day to remember victims of the 2001 September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9\/11 (pronounced <em>nine-eleven)<\/em> On this day, hijackers intentionally crashed two airplanes in to the <a title=\"World Trade Center\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_Trade_Center\">World Trade Center<\/a> in <a title=\"New York City\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\">New York City<\/a> causing them to collapse. Hijackers crashed a third airliner into the <a title=\"The Pentagon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Pentagon\">Pentagon<\/a> in Arlington, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C. The fourth plane crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania, after some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 11th:\u00a0 Take a moment to day to remember victims of the 2001 September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9\/11 (pronounced nine-eleven) On this day, hijackers intentionally crashed two airplanes in to the <a title=\"World Trade Center\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_Trade_Center\">World Trade Center<\/a> in <a title=\"New York City\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\">New York City<\/a> causing them to collapse. Hijackers crashed  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/abc\/2011\/09\/11\/remembering-911\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,388,521],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-13","tag-new-york-city","tag-twins-towers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Remembering 9\/11 - ABC Blog (Annapolis, Baltimore &amp; Columbia, MD)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Remembering 9\/11 - ABC Blog (Annapolis, Baltimore &amp; Columbia, MD)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"September 11th:\u00a0 Take a moment to day to remember victims of the 2001 September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9\/11 (pronounced nine-eleven) On this day, hijackers intentionally crashed two airplanes in to the World Trade Center in New York City causing them to collapse. 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