{"id":13,"date":"2005-10-07T07:07:53","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T14:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/systematic.hrblogs.org\/2005\/10\/07\/business-as-usual\/"},"modified":"2005-10-07T07:07:53","modified_gmt":"2005-10-07T14:07:53","slug":"business-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Business as usual?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At some point last night I heard that there was a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/10\/07\/newyork.subways\/index.html?section=cnn_us\" title=\"High security greets N.Y. rush-hour commuters - cnn.com\">credible threat<\/a>&#8221; to the NYC subway system. I commute on suburban rails to midtown Manhattan where I take the subway downtown. This morning as I drove to the station I considered taking an alternate route through Brooklyn, but I ended up following my usual pattern. This made me wonder about my motivations. I&#8217;m not particularly moved by the sentiment expressed as: &#8220;If you stop\/change your daily routines then the terrorists have won&#8221;. I thought of changing my route to avoid high-traffic (and presumably high-value to a terrorist) stations to mitigate my personal risk, yet I have a growing notion that like burglars, terrorists will avoid areas of obvious enforcement. This morning when I arrived at my terminal and entered the subway I saw no visible police presence. At my end stop on the subway there was a cluster of police officers but not the more heavily armed Atlas force nor the National Guard and Army personnel sent in to augment the effort. <\/p>\n<p>Where does this leave me? I don&#8217;t consider myself a fatalist but I do need to show up at work and I either ride trains or lay out an enormous amout of money and time to drive into the city and park. It seems that many of us have reached the conclusion &#8211; well, what else can I do? We take risks every day in our lives and have become inured to most of them. And still, the images of London and Madrid are following me today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point last night I heard that there was a &#8220;credible threat&#8221; to the NYC subway system. I commute on suburban rails to midtown Manhattan where I take the subway downtown. This morning as I drove to the station I considered taking an alternate route through Brooklyn, but I ended up following my usual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andyscherer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}