{"id":14001,"date":"2012-05-01T16:49:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T20:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=14001"},"modified":"2012-05-02T09:26:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T13:26:04","slug":"a-great-day-to-be-an-american-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14001\/a-great-day-to-be-an-american-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Great Day to be an American &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last time that I used that headline on the blog was <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9511\/a-great-day-to-be-an-american\/\" target=\"_blank\">a year ago tomorrow<\/a>. Follow that link and you&#8217;ll see that I don&#8217;t use it lightly.<\/p>\n<p>But, even though it&#8217;s about a decade overdue, you can&#8217;t help but smile at the news that came out of Lower Manhattan yesterday. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/life-style\/real-estate\/official-1-wtc-york-tallest-building-article-1.1069925#ixzz1tZ3YhAPN\" target=\"_blank\"><em>the New York Daily News<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A steel beam labeled \u201c1271 ft\u201d was secured to One World Trade Center on Monday, making it the tallest building in the city \u2014 and demoting the Empire State Building to No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Applause broke out as the unfinished Ground Zero tower became the king of the New York skyline, eclipsing King Kong\u2019s perch.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called Freedom Tower will eventually be 1,776 feet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\">Yep. A great day to be an American:<\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14007\" title=\"FreedomTower\" src=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FreedomTower1.JPG\" alt=\"FreedomTower\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FreedomTower1.JPG 600w, https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FreedomTower1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time that I used that headline on the blog was a year ago tomorrow. Follow that link and you&#8217;ll see that I don&#8217;t use it lightly. But, even though it&#8217;s about a decade overdue, you can&#8217;t help but smile at the news that came out of Lower Manhattan yesterday. From the New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14001"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14020,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14001\/revisions\/14020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}