{"id":42334,"date":"2020-04-19T22:47:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T22:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42334"},"modified":"2020-04-19T22:47:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T22:47:45","slug":"this-is-how-you-reflect-on-national-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42334","title":{"rendered":"This is how you reflect on national crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=OKCBombing%20%23BillClinton&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bill Clinton speaks at Oklahoma City National Memorial\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eVnIXyQl39A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five years ago a madman ignited a bomb at a federal courthouse in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>The blast killed 167 men, women \u2026 and children. It tore at the nation&#8217;s soul. It broke our hearts. The madman would be arrested soon afterward. He was put on trial, convicted and then executed for his crime against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>I want to share this video of President Bill Clinton, who went to OKC five years ago to mark the 20th year since that horrifying event. I ask you to take a few moments to listen to the former president&#8217;s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to call your attention to a story he told of a former Oklahoma governor, on whose watch this tragedy occurred. The governor is a Republican; the former president is a Democrat. They are dear friends who made each other&#8217;s acquaintance in college many years ago.<\/p>\n<p>They had a partisan political beef that lasted until, as President Clinton said, &#8220;Oklahoma City&#8221; occurred. Then their differences disappeared, Clinton said, amid the heartbreak, leaving all Americans to deal only with each other&#8217;s &#8220;humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a profound lesson to be learned from these remarks.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=OKCBombing%20%23BillClinton&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five years ago a madman ignited a bomb at a federal courthouse in Oklahoma City. The blast killed 167 men, women \u2026 and children. It tore at the nation&#8217;s soul. It broke our hearts. The madman would be arrested soon afterward. He was put on trial, convicted and then executed for his crime against humanity. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42334\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is how you reflect on national crisis<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[631,3400],"class_list":["post-42334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bill-clinton","tag-okc-bombing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42335,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42334\/revisions\/42335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}