{"id":497,"date":"2007-04-23T19:03:55","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T17:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2007\/04\/23\/everything-stops\/"},"modified":"2007-04-23T19:03:55","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T17:03:55","slug":"everything-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/23\/everything-stops\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything Stops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yom_Hazikaron\">Memorial Day<\/a> in Israel, in which the nation&#8217;s fallen soldiers are remembered.&nbsp; At 8 pm last night and at 11 am this morning, a siren sounded and everything in the nation stopped.&nbsp; Cars stopped on the freeway and people got out and stood and remembered.&nbsp; For one minute last night and two this morning, classes stopped, work stopped, talking stopped.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not much to remember those who have died to give a nation life, but it is something.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know if there is ever a time in the States when everyone all at the same time does the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>I was talking with a neighbor who is about my age when the siren sounded this morning and after we sat back down he told me about his classmate that he grew up with.&nbsp; They had the same name and went to the same school.&nbsp; But his friend died serving in the military.&nbsp; Everyone here has a friend who died.&nbsp; Many have a son, father, or brother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Memorial Day in Israel, in which the nation&#8217;s fallen soldiers are remembered.&nbsp; At 8 pm last night and at 11 am this morning, a siren sounded and everything in the nation stopped.&nbsp; Cars stopped on the freeway and people got out and stood and remembered.&nbsp; For one minute last night and two this\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/23\/everything-stops\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}