{"id":86960,"date":"2024-02-08T08:13:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86960"},"modified":"2024-02-08T08:13:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:13:16","slug":"bob-beckwith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86960","title":{"rendered":"Bob Beckwith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bob Beckwith was the FDNY firefighter who stood with then-President Bush during one of the moments in my life when I was proudest to be an American. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Retired FDNY Firefighter Bob Beckwith, remembered for his bravery on 9\/11 and standing with former President George W. Bush as he surveyed the damage shortly after the attacks, has died at the age of 91. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ewoYnisQlW\">https:\/\/t.co\/ewoYnisQlW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NEco6t3tiz\">pic.twitter.com\/NEco6t3tiz<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSNews\/status\/1754599327723319692?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It occurs to me there&#8217;s a generation for whom &#8220;FDNY&#8221; isn&#8217;t instantly mentally associated with tragedy, heroism, and that particular moment 22 years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Beckwith was the FDNY firefighter who stood with then-President Bush during one of the moments in my life when I was proudest to be an American. It occurs to me there&#8217;s a generation for whom &#8220;FDNY&#8221; isn&#8217;t instantly mentally associated with tragedy, heroism, and that particular moment 22 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making","category-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86976,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86960\/revisions\/86976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}