{"id":3913,"date":"2011-09-11T15:47:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T19:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2011-09-11T15:52:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T19:52:32","slug":"our-2nd-anniversary-9476-at-windows-on-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/11\/our-2nd-anniversary-9476-at-windows-on-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Our 2nd anniversary: 9\/4\/78 at Windows on the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 4, 1978, Irene and I celebrated our second anniversary by having lunch at Windows on the World restaurant.  It was part of an anniversary weekend that included a rented Rolls Royce, orchestra tickets to the then-hit Broadway show <em>On the Twentieth Century<\/em>, dinner at the reopened Stork Club, and a suite at the Plaza Hotel overlooking Central Park. (No, we weren&#8217;t rich &#8230; but I&#8217;d just gotten paid for  <em>The Captain Midnight Book of Sports, Health and Nutrition<\/em> and  decided to blow most of the proceeds celebrating.)<\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t remember &#8230; Windows on the World was on top of the north tower of the World Trade Center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/WindowsontheWorld.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/WindowsontheWorld-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"WindowsontheWorld\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/WindowsontheWorld-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/WindowsontheWorld-1024x823.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/WindowsontheWorld.jpg 1972w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The original to this photo is displayed to the right of my desk, which means I see it and think about that lunch and that venue every day.<\/p>\n<p>I sure wish we lived in a world in which we could go back there again for some future anniversary &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 4, 1978, Irene and I celebrated our second anniversary by having lunch at Windows on the World restaurant. It was part of an anniversary weekend that included a rented Rolls Royce, orchestra tickets to the then-hit Broadway show On the Twentieth Century, dinner at the reopened Stork Club, and a suite at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[99,73],"class_list":["post-3913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anniversary","tag-irene-vartanoff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}