{"id":482,"date":"2009-12-29T23:35:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T04:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=482"},"modified":"2023-05-29T11:08:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T16:08:37","slug":"i-built-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2009\/12\/29\/i-built-that","title":{"rendered":"I Built That"},"content":{"rendered":"

Construction and architecture must be a rewarding field. I mean, you wouldn’t think so at first, at least not for the construction workers, as architects are considered a “respectable” career. But this goes for them both. They are involved with, obviously enough, putting up buildings, big and small, homes and offices, churches and schools. And those buildings will stand there proudly for most likely a very long time, all time that all the hard workers that contributed to it, whether designing the plan or doing the actual construction, can point to it and say that they built this, that this building and all its purposes are here because of their hard work.<\/p>\n

It was eight years ago today that my family took a little 2-day trip to New York City, our first time there after the September 11th attacks, only about three and a half months after. And we saw with our own eyes that it was all true, that those enormous Twin Towers were in fact gone. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

We all heard a lot about the impact the attack had on, well, everyone. Especially the friends and families of the victims, and of course the people who were in the buildings and managed to escape with their lives.
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\nYou also have to wonder about the people who built those Towers in the first place. They had only been up for about 28 years when the planes hit them, only four times the amount of time it took to complete their construction! And it’s probably safe to assume, seeing as how new the Towers were, that most of the construction workers and architects were still alive with the attack happened.<\/p>\n

Up until then, they could look at the Manhattan skyline so proudly! Those twins they constructed over so many years overtook the Empire State Building as the tallest structures in the big city, were such an important landmark of the city. People flocked from far and near to visit it, to go to the top. Homer Simpson’s car was parked and booted on the ground beneath them, and he had to use the bathroom and raced to the top of one tower, found the bathroom out of order with a sign saying to use the other tower!<\/p>\n

Then some asshole terrorists hijacked some planes and knocked them the fuck down. Suddenly those Towers which the builders were so proud of were now the site of people burned alive in the crashing planes, of people leaping off the higher floors to go splat on the pavement below to avoid the fire death, people being crushed horribly when the buildings came down. Those who built them saw as this gigantic atrocity turned these two majestic buildings into a horrible death trap for a couple thousand people.<\/p>\n

Reminds me of in Titanic where the guy who designed and built the ship was absolutely devastated that all around him, his creation had the rather serious fuck-up of that little iceberg vulnerability and had now caused all the screaming and freezing and drowning and death all around him.<\/p>\n

Of course, it wasn’t the Towers’ builders’ fuck-up that caused 9\/11. Or maybe it was. Should have made them airplane-resistant maybe? That’s possible, right?<\/p>\n

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Construction and architecture must be a rewarding field. I mean, you wouldn’t think so at first, at least not for the construction workers, as architects are considered a “respectable” career. But this goes for them both. They are involved with, obviously enough, putting up buildings, big and small, homes and offices, churches and schools. And … Continue reading “I Built That”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/2297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}