{"id":1034,"date":"2009-11-27T18:55:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T23:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/1034"},"modified":"2009-11-27T18:55:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T23:55:25","slug":"the-day-kennedy-was-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=1034","title":{"rendered":"The Day Kennedy Was Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kenfagerdotcom\/4138878179\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 0px #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2775\/4138878179_beb112fa3c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\">Taken today in an abandoned house in Koshkonong, Wisconsin.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\">A generation before I was born America survived a national tragedy. President Kennedy was killed by an American, <a title=\"Lee Harvey Oswald\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lee_Harvey_Oswald\" target=\"_blank\">one of our own<\/a>, trained by the very government he later sought to throw into chaos. A single date, November 22, 1963, shattered the American Dream. Civil unrest, chaos, and war with no meaning followed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\">My generation has not learned history&#8217;s lesson. CIA trained Osama bin Laden remains uncaptured for his 9\/11 crimes. We are still mired in not one, but two wars with uncertain futures that have sent our country into a downward spiral. One of those wars was prefaced entirely on a series of compounding lies. Comedian George Carlin once said that you would have to be asleep to believe in the American Dream. The tragedy is that he was probably right.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken today in an abandoned house in Koshkonong, Wisconsin. A generation before I was born America survived a national tragedy. President Kennedy was killed by an American, one of our own, trained by the very government he later sought to throw into chaos. A single date, November 22, 1963, shattered the American Dream. Civil unrest, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=1034\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Day Kennedy Was Shot<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,24],"tags":[168,246,259,265,465,536,498],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flickr","category-foto","category-urbex","tag-exploration","tag-infiltration","tag-jfk","tag-kennedy","tag-urban","tag-urbex","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}