{"id":1933,"date":"2011-09-01T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2011-09-01T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:11:00","slug":"september-2011-item-of-the-month-ten-years-after-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/09\/01\/september-2011-item-of-the-month-ten-years-after-911\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2011  Item of the Month: Ten Years after 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month marks the tenth anniversary of one of the most difficult times in the history of the United States.\u00a0 Every American was touched, in one way or another, by the multiple tragedies\u00a0experienced that fateful fall day.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Christopher Shays, Connecticut Congressman representing the 4th district, became involved with individuals and organizations soon thereafter as a\u00a0co-founded of the 9-11 Caucus (<a href=\"http:\/\/maloney.house.gov\/911caucus\/index.html\">http:\/\/maloney.house.gov\/911caucus\/index.html<\/a>)\u00a0 and worked with colleagues in 2005 to change rules to\u00a0&#8220;bring Congressional oversight in line with the 9\/11 Commission&#8217;s recommendations.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0His involvement with multiple 9\/11 activities is documented in his papers which\u00a0are housed in Archives &amp; Special Collections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[slideshow]<\/p>\n<p>-Betsy Pittman, Curator of Political Collections<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month marks the tenth anniversary of one of the most difficult times in the history of the United States.\u00a0 Every American was touched, in one way or another, by the multiple tragedies\u00a0experienced that fateful fall day.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Christopher Shays, Connecticut Congressman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/09\/01\/september-2011-item-of-the-month-ten-years-after-911\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}