{"id":381,"date":"2011-09-11T15:23:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T15:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2011-09-11T15:23:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T15:23:44","slug":"st-pauls-church-911-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/st-pauls-church-911-memorial\/uncategorized\/","title":{"rendered":"St Paul&#8217;s Church 9\/11 Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year we visited St Paul&#8217;s Church, the unofficial centre for the emergency services workers on the Twin Towers site after 9\/11. It was extraordinary to see how people had come together to support the workers, and the way this support was represented by material offerings: soft toys, banners, blankets. Most moving for me was the collection of identity badges donated by the different rescue workers. These spanned the globe, including some from Hampshire that might have been donated by my neighbours the firemen. St Pauls seems to welcome its new role as a memorial site, although this cannot always be easy for its priests and parishioners. <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-383\" href=\"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/st-pauls-church-911-memorial\/badges-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-383\" title=\"badges\" src=\"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/badges1-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/badges1-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/badges1-150x136.jpg 150w, https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/badges1.jpg 847w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The transformation of the church shows how important the process of public memorialisation is at times of public trauma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year we visited St Paul&#8217;s Church, the unofficial centre for the emergency services workers on the Twin Towers site after 9\/11. It was extraordinary to see how people had come together to support the workers, and the way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/st-pauls-church-911-memorial\/uncategorized\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}