{"id":201,"date":"2003-11-19T15:25:03","date_gmt":"2003-11-19T20:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2010-07-10T22:46:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T02:46:51","slug":"memorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Memorials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&#8220;On Nov. 19, 2003, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowermanhattan.info\/rebuild\/memorial_design\/default.asp\">eight finalists in the competition to design a permanent memorial at the World Trade Center<\/a>.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure which one I like best.  (Not that the deciding committee asked me what I thought!!)<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowermanhattan.info\/rebuild\/memorial_design\/files\/fin6.html\">Suspending Memory<\/a>&#8221; one struck a chord &#8211; it somehow seems to capture the vastness of what occurred that day &#8230; and not just the vastness, not just the collapse of the buildings and the beginning of a war, but the loss of innocent human life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asmallvictory.net\/archives\/005239.html#005239\">I think I have to agree with Michele <\/a>here, and say that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowermanhattan.info\/rebuild\/memorial_design\/files\/fin0.html\">Garden of Lights<\/a>&#8221; is my favorite.<\/p>\n<p>I think maybe because there is something abstract about it, something heightened &#8230; (as opposed to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowermanhattan.info\/rebuild\/memorial_design\/files\/fin4.html\">garish memorial like this one <\/a>&#8211; Yuk.)<\/p>\n<p>Also:  the darkness appeals to me, personally.<\/p>\n<p>When I go to remember the dead, I don&#8217;t want to be in a big echoey flourescent-lit hall, with grey carpeting.<\/p>\n<p>I want it to be a space of contemplation, a space of meditation, a space where loss can be expressed, let out.  Where people can come who were NOT here on that day, and feel that they have mourned too, grieved too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;On Nov. 19, 2003, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced eight finalists in the competition to design a permanent memorial at the World Trade Center.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure which one I like best. (Not that the deciding committee asked me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=201\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[161,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16342,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/16342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}