{"id":50,"date":"2011-09-11T01:28:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T08:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freemanng.net\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2018-05-10T06:14:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T06:14:06","slug":"a-911-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.authorfreeman.com\/blog\/a-911-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"A 9\/11 poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Pull<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bodies of every size falling<br \/>\nat the same rate, no one<br \/>\nmore or less anxious<br \/>\nto achieve the finality<br \/>\nof ground, all<br \/>\nequally compliant<br \/>\nor ineffectively resistant<br \/>\nto gravity\u2019s<br \/>\nslippery slope.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nGalileo would have been<br \/>\npleased.<\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/galileo\/expe_fobj_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thought experiment<\/a><br \/>\nconjured two bodies<br \/>\n(inanimate masses in his<br \/>\npre-9\/11 mindset)<br \/>\nof unequal weight<br \/>\nbut linked.\u00a0 A mother,<br \/>\nfor example, tightly<br \/>\nholding her child. They fall<br \/>\nas one body. Now suppose<br \/>\nthe grip loosens, into<br \/>\na clutched hand,\u00a0 a touch,<br \/>\nor only a look<br \/>\nacross the uprushing air.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5C5_dOEyAfk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On the moon<\/a>, they dropped<br \/>\na feather and a metallic mass<br \/>\nthat might have been<br \/>\na bullet, or a cannon ball,<br \/>\nor some complex mechanism<br \/>\nof this age, which gravity<br \/>\ntook impartially. (I see<br \/>\nthe feather\u2019s leaden descent,<br \/>\nas swift as any fall<br \/>\nthrough billows of smoke<br \/>\nonto the fear-thronged<br \/>\nstreets below.)<\/p>\n<p>Freeman Ng<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pull Bodies of every size falling at the same rate, no one more or less anxious to achieve the finality of ground, all equally compliant or ineffectively resistant to gravity\u2019s slippery slope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorfreeman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorfreeman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorfreeman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorfreeman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorfreeman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorfreeman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorfreeman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorfreeman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorfreeman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorfreeman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}