{"id":5954,"date":"2025-09-12T13:13:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2025-09-12T13:13:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:13:34","slug":"where-was-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/12\/where-was-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Was I?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, perhaps I spoke too soon about <a href=\"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/09\/lurk-culture\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"5943\">no one posting anything anymore.<\/a> My future accomplice in crime<sup data-fn=\"5238f646-e582-4d18-8e92-a467e0d6d6a3\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#5238f646-e582-4d18-8e92-a467e0d6d6a3\" id=\"5238f646-e582-4d18-8e92-a467e0d6d6a3-link\">1<\/a><\/sup> has started a new blog\/newsletter, in the year of\u2014<strong>checks calendar<\/strong>\u20142025.<sup data-fn=\"5f10a55c-eb65-4e9f-8c5a-a3f4cd6dca68\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#5f10a55c-eb65-4e9f-8c5a-a3f4cd6dca68\" id=\"5f10a55c-eb65-4e9f-8c5a-a3f4cd6dca68-link\">2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome Lindsey! Soon we can get our <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Webring\">webring<\/a> started and start talking in the forums. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lindsey&#8217;s inaugural post is about where she was during 9\/11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-lindsey wp-block-embed-lindsey\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"nZXqtwHkcP\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lindsjens.com\/2025\/09\/11\/the-art-of-connection\/\">where were you&#8230;<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;where were you&#8230;&#8221; &#8212; Lindsey\" src=\"https:\/\/lindsjens.com\/2025\/09\/11\/the-art-of-connection\/embed\/#?secret=LFnZEBhPze#?secret=nZXqtwHkcP\" data-secret=\"nZXqtwHkcP\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I&#8217;ve never done a reblog on WordPress. Is this a thing? Save reblogs for Tumblr!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Well, Where Was I?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My memory is blurry but, I remember being home, I was about to start as a Freshman at OSU commuting from my parent&#8217;s house. I don&#8217;t think classes had started yet or they were about to shortly<sup data-fn=\"dd44f8c4-26af-4e49-9e9d-114f8775f38d\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#dd44f8c4-26af-4e49-9e9d-114f8775f38d\" id=\"dd44f8c4-26af-4e49-9e9d-114f8775f38d-link\">3<\/a><\/sup>. I think I  woke up after the plane hit the first tower. My mom must have woken me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was at the point where I had broadband internet (and free cable from the aforementioned broadband internet). I think I tuned into CNN to watch the subsequent attacks in realtime. I don&#8217;t remember much else from that day other being somewhat scared and watching the news. No one knew exactly what was happening. It was all speculation for a while. This was also well before you could follow events like this reliably on the internet. There was no social media. This whole time period for me is a blur mostly because I was already deeply overwhelmed about college. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do remember the subsequent weeks where it seemed like that an almost propagandized sense of patriotism became true. A moment of mass trauma response where people seemed to care about one another. That quickly subsided as American muslims were targeted and things like the Patriot Act<sup data-fn=\"71e7ff2b-ca72-40dc-a33f-400dd59c738f\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#71e7ff2b-ca72-40dc-a33f-400dd59c738f\" id=\"71e7ff2b-ca72-40dc-a33f-400dd59c738f-link\">4<\/a><\/sup> were put into law. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do remember starting to follow politics a bit more (as I really hadn&#8217;t while I was in high school). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do think of it as a milestone moment in history, much like the COVID-19 pandemic is in the most recent past. Things were different after that. Hard to detail specifics, but things were definitely just different culturally after that moment.<sup data-fn=\"71211095-d35a-4811-a66b-f96f904a4bae\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#71211095-d35a-4811-a66b-f96f904a4bae\" id=\"71211095-d35a-4811-a66b-f96f904a4bae-link\">5<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<ol class=\"footnotes wp-block-footnotes has-medium-font-size\"><li id=\"5238f646-e582-4d18-8e92-a467e0d6d6a3\">As we&#8217;ve definitely not committed any crimes yet.  <a href=\"#5238f646-e582-4d18-8e92-a467e0d6d6a3-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 1\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><li id=\"5f10a55c-eb65-4e9f-8c5a-a3f4cd6dca68\">That can&#8217;t be right. <a href=\"#5f10a55c-eb65-4e9f-8c5a-a3f4cd6dca68-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 2\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><li id=\"dd44f8c4-26af-4e49-9e9d-114f8775f38d\">Back when OSU was on quarters, not semesters.  <a href=\"#dd44f8c4-26af-4e49-9e9d-114f8775f38d-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 3\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><li id=\"71e7ff2b-ca72-40dc-a33f-400dd59c738f\">Which I do believe is a turning point to how we got to NOW. <a href=\"#71e7ff2b-ca72-40dc-a33f-400dd59c738f-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 4\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><li id=\"71211095-d35a-4811-a66b-f96f904a4bae\">For example how everyone noticed films or TV shows that featured the Twin Towers, or how they had to change things like the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spider-Man_(2002_film)#Filming\">Spider-Man movie in response.<\/a> <a href=\"#71211095-d35a-4811-a66b-f96f904a4bae-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 5\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where was 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