{"id":72689,"date":"2016-09-02T10:23:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T14:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=72689"},"modified":"2016-09-01T20:33:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T00:33:03","slug":"statement-of-babinec-on-owego-911-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=72689","title":{"rendered":"Statement of Babinec on Owego 9\/11 memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=71387\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71387\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-71387\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Babinec-300x75.jpg\" alt=\"Babinec\" width=\"300\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Babinec-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Babinec-150x38.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Babinec-900x225.jpg 900w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Babinec-400x100.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Babinec.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;I commend the Town of Owego who undertook the effort, on their own, to raise the money and put in place a fitting memorial to the attacks of September 11th in commemoration of the 15th anniversary. Islamic terror and terrorists are a real and present danger to <!--more-->American security &#8211; then and now. While reasonable people can always quibble with wording there is no parsing the facts: radical Islamic terrorists whether they be ISIS or al Qaeda have declared war on America &#8211; we must call our enemy by their name and not shrink from the hard truth. We need to all stand together -Christians, Jews and Muslims to eradicate this evil perversion of Islam. I stand with the Town of Owego,&#8221; Martin Babinec.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I commend the Town of Owego who undertook the effort, on their own, to raise the money and put in place a fitting memorial to the attacks of September 11th in commemoration of the 15th anniversary. Islamic terror and terrorists are a real and present danger to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23811,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}