{"id":1043,"date":"2004-09-13T00:09:07","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T04:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/13\/no-politics-weekend\/"},"modified":"2007-07-29T23:35:52","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T03:35:52","slug":"no-politics-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/13\/no-politics-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"No politics weekend."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>In light of the fact that I couldn&#8217;t obsessively read the news and opinions online this weekend, I took a little break from politics.  I spent a good portion of Saturday listening to <a target=\"NewWindow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\">WNYC<\/a>&#8216;s coverage of the 9\/11 commemorations.  By the end of this weekend, I had heard\/watched two absolutely outstanding pieces (one on radio, one on TV) about the 9\/11 Commission Report.  Each one is an hour (without breaks), and I wanted to recommend them both.  They cover a lot of the same ground, both being on the same subject, but there are certainly distinct interviews and perspectives, and I think they&#8217;re pretty fair-minded.  The first is American Radio Works special production, &quot;<a target=\"NewWindow\" href=\"http:\/\/americanradioworks.publicradio.org\/features\/911\/index.html\">Witnesses to Terror: The 9\/11 Hearings<\/a>,&quot; and the second was this week&#8217;s episode of NOW with Bill Moyers, &quot;<a target=\"NewWindow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/now\/politics\/911election2004.html\">9\/11: For the Record<\/a>.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend tracking down a copy of both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the fact that I couldn&#8217;t obsessively read the news and opinions online this weekend, I took a little break from politics. I spent a good portion of Saturday listening to WNYC&#8216;s coverage of the 9\/11 commemorations. By the end of this weekend, I had heard\/watched two absolutely outstanding pieces (one on radio, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-current-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-gP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}