{"id":13124,"date":"2012-09-11T09:39:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T13:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=13124"},"modified":"2012-09-11T09:39:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T13:39:24","slug":"11-years-ago__rose-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=13124","title":{"rendered":"11 years ago__Rose Ho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/911-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13125\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/911-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Eleven years ago, I was scheduled on a UA flight back from Hong Kong to Toronto (via Chicago) for my annual vacation on September 11.\u00a0 \u00a0That was the day when the WTC and the Pentagon were attacked and the former fell.\u00a0 \u00a0As of this day, I still feel I was very lucky and blessed to have escaped this disaster.<\/p>\n<p>If I hadn\u2019t had earlier availability in the work schedule\u2026.if I hadn\u2019t kept chasing UA for a change to an earlier flight\u2026.if I hadn\u2019t been put on the flight of September 8, 2001\u2026. \u2026.I would then be \u2026.at best stuck in the air or in some boonie land, and at worst, vanished from this world.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven years had gone by, I still felt grateful\u2026.not only for that trip, but for every safe trip I made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven years ago, I was scheduled on a UA flight back from Hong Kong to Toronto (via Chicago) for my annual vacation on September 11.\u00a0 \u00a0That was the day when the WTC and the Pentagon were attacked and the former &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=13124\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-13124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-rose-ho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13128,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13124\/revisions\/13128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}