{"id":1166,"date":"2006-03-29T20:25:26","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T20:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2006-03-29T20:25:26","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T20:25:26","slug":"land_of_the_ris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1166","title":{"rendered":"Land Of The Rising Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV>One place still on my list of Places to See in the World is Japan (Tokyo, specifically).&nbsp; I&#8217;ve always thought of Japan as a country that isn&#8217;t terribly accommodating to people with disabilities, but those perceptions were corrected when I read <A href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/ouch\/columnists\/tom\/270306_index.shtml\">Tom Shakespeare&#8217;s article on his visit to an accessible Tokyo<\/A>.&nbsp; Maybe I can become one of those celebrities who is virtually unknown in America but who is a minor deity in Japan.&nbsp; I just have to do something that appeals to Japanese sensibilities, like inventing a wheelchair that can transform into a sixty-foot-tall battle droid capable of leveling entire cities.&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>Honestly, I don&#8217;t get most Japanese anime.&nbsp; Lots of maladjusted protagonists with destructive impulses and the creepy, doe-eyed, hypersexualized women who love them.&nbsp; Bleh.<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One place still on my list of Places to See in the World is Japan (Tokyo, specifically).&nbsp; I&#8217;ve always thought of Japan as a country that isn&#8217;t terribly accommodating to people with disabilities, but those perceptions were corrected when I read Tom Shakespeare&#8217;s article on his visit to an accessible Tokyo.&nbsp; Maybe I can become <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1166' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-iO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}