{"id":25255,"date":"2011-05-03T02:09:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T02:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/after-years-of-catholic-school-i-am\/"},"modified":"2011-05-03T02:09:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T02:09:55","slug":"after-years-of-catholic-school-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/after-years-of-catholic-school-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>After years of Catholic school, I am constitutionally unable to feel joyous about anyone being killed, but I got close tonight with bin Laden. He killed thousands of innocent people \u2013 and again, it was that incomparable American tableau: Muslims, Jews, Catholics; waiters, firefighters, investment bankers; gays and straights; mothers and fathers of every race. For months, reading the New York Times &ldquo;Portraits of Grief&rdquo; felt like a responsibility of American citizenship; every day you&rsquo;d find someone almost exactly like you, but also as different from you as possible \u2013 except they also loved Bruce Springsteen (a lot of them did) or had a child your age or were born on your father&rsquo;s birthday. We saw the beauty and bravery and diversity of America in that tragedy, and I wish it didn&rsquo;t take a tragedy for us to do so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/osama_bin_laden\/index.html?story=\/opinion\/walsh\/politics\/2011\/05\/01\/obama_sunday_night_address\">Is this what closure feels like? &#8211; Osama Bin Laden &#8211; Salon.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of Catholic school, I am constitutionally unable to feel joyous about anyone being killed, but I got close tonight with bin Laden. He killed thousands of innocent people \u2013 and again, it was that incomparable American tableau: Muslims, Jews, Catholics; waiters, firefighters, investment bankers; gays and straights; mothers and fathers of every race. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6zl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}