{"id":70,"date":"2005-07-14T01:08:24","date_gmt":"2005-07-14T01:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=70"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:23:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:23:03","slug":"proposed-sign-for-ground-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2005\/07\/proposed-sign-for-ground-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Sign for Ground Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"ground_zero_sign.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/archives\/ground_zero_sign.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nI work down at the World Financial Center. I walk past Ground Zero on the way to the office. It&#8217;s a pretty antiseptic desolate stretch of concrete on the south side of the pit.<br \/>\nEach day throngs of tourists pour through there taking their pictures in front of&#8230;nothing. I understand why they come to see it. But they come and walk through this corridor desperate for some scratch of tribute, some artifact of sympathy. There&#8217;s almost nothing there. A few keychain lanyards, a few old photos duct taped to the wall, and scattered about&#8230;some crappy high school poetry. And this is what the tourists deem picture worthy.<br \/>\nTo be clear, I am not poking fun at the grieving teen who may write said poetry. I am just commenting on the absurdity of taking a picture of it. The good news is that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewnyc.com\/\" target=\"new\">Lower Manhattan Development Corporation<\/a> just announced plans to open a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewnyc.com\/content\/pdfs\/TributeVisitorsInfo.pdf\" target =\"new\">&#8220;Tribute Visitor&#8217;s Center&#8221;<\/a> next to the firehouse on Liberty Street. I think this will go a long way in giving these people something worth seeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I work down at the World Financial Center. I walk past Ground Zero on the way to the office. It&#8217;s a pretty antiseptic desolate stretch of concrete on the south side of the pit. Each day throngs of tourists pour through there taking their pictures in front of&#8230;nothing. I understand why they come to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}