{"id":530,"date":"2005-06-28T22:28:52","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T03:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/06\/28\/a-time-of-horror-vs-a-shining-moment-of-solidarity\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T16:40:43","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T20:40:43","slug":"a-time-of-horror-vs-a-shining-moment-of-solidarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/530","title":{"rendered":"A time of horror vs a shining moment of solidarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dana and I took time tonight to have a nice dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tworoadscafe.com\/\">Two Roads Cafe<\/a> in Danville, sharing a Cabernet from my favorite Washington State winery, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ste-michelle.com\/Sub_CurrentReleases.cfm?DetailType=LIST\">Chateau Ste Michelle<\/a>. I remember first learning of it during a riverboat cruise we attended for the wedding rehearsal dinner of a former Centre intern. It wasn&#8217;t long after September 11 and I was wearing my flag lapel pin, which attracted a New Yorker who was present. He expressed his thanks to me for the show of support (yes, he took my gesture as personally significant to him&#8212;you have to recall the mood of the times), and we enjoyed each other&#8217;s friendship as he kindly introduced me to a family of reliably fine wines before we said our farewells later that evening.\n<\/p>\n<p>When I think back to experiences like that, I wish that it was easier for us humans to discern the core essentials of life at times other than peril, tragedy, or loss&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana and I took time tonight to have a nice dinner at Two Roads Cafe in Danville, sharing a Cabernet from my favorite Washington State winery, Chateau Ste Michelle. I remember first learning of it during a riverboat cruise we attended for the wedding rehearsal dinner of a former Centre intern. It wasn&#8217;t long after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,12,8,69,6,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}