{"id":11054,"date":"2025-09-16T10:50:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.francolania.com\/?p=11054"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:02:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:02:02","slug":"virginia-this-morning-9-11-remembrance-segment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/2025\/09\/16\/virginia-this-morning-9-11-remembrance-segment\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia This Morning | 9\/11 Remembrance Segment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The events of September 11, 2001, were an act of pure evil and hatred that is difficult to comprehend, especially on what began as a beautiful morning in New York City. What occurred is forever etched into our minds.\u00a0 I was a guest on <a href=\"http:\/\/RICHMOND, Va. -- On September 11, 2001, Chef Franco Lania was getting ready to start a new job at a new restaurant in New York City. That morning, he headed to the World Trade Center to take a Department of Health test for a Food Handler\u2019s Certificate. The test never happened as Franco and others escaped the South Tower following the terrorist attacks.  After evacuating, the trauma left him without a sense of purpose. What began as a way to simply cope transformed into a journey of resilience that he now shares in his upcoming memoir, \u201cCooking Inspired.\u201d\">Virginia This Morning<\/a>, where I shared my <a href=\"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/2016\/09\/reflections-15th-anniversary-911\/\">personal connection to 9\/11<\/a> and how it ultimately inspired my memoir, titled <em>Cooking Inspired<\/em>, which will be available in bookstores and online at sites like Amazon by the holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Virginia This Morning  | 9\/11 Remembrance Segment\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HRGw1mmi9Y8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The events of September 11, 2001, were an act of pure evil and hatred that is difficult to comprehend, especially on what began as a beautiful morning in New York City. What occurred is forever etched into our minds.\u00a0 I was a guest on Virginia This Morning, where I shared my personal connection to 9\/11 &#8230; <a title=\"Virginia This Morning | 9\/11 Remembrance Segment\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/2025\/09\/16\/virginia-this-morning-9-11-remembrance-segment\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Virginia This Morning | 9\/11 Remembrance Segment\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"postBodyCss":"","postBodyMargin":[],"postBodyPadding":[],"postBodyBackground":{"backgroundType":"classic","gradient":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2495,119],"tags":[693,2496,696],"class_list":["post-11054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9-11","category-videos","tag-693","tag-virgina-this-morning","tag-world-trade-center-2","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15089,"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054\/revisions\/15089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo-test-link.com\/franco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}