{"id":2137,"date":"2009-09-16T06:25:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T06:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2009-09-16T06:25:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T06:25:34","slug":"911_balanced_so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2137","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 Balanced Somehow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nSo tonight between chores, we watched a film,’Man on Wire<\/a>,’ and it was wonderful, and funny and moving.<\/p>\n

And somehow, I can’t explain how exactly, but in it – in the image of Phillip Petit kneeling on the wire between the Towers – something in me shifted. It is difficult to say this, but that image is just the antidote I need to neutralize the image of the Falling Man which I carry with me every year at about this time.<\/p>\n

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We are species of horror and brutality, to be sure. <\/p>\n

But we are also a species of wonder and joy. And sometimes those happen at the exact same place.<\/p>\n

If, like me, the image of the WTC curtainwall brings you directly to 9\/11, watch this film. It won’t make it go away – nothing ever will. But it will – forgive me for this – balance it.
\n–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If, like me, you only think about 9\/11 when you see WTC – see Man on Wire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}