{"id":1201,"date":"2006-05-04T20:19:30","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T20:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2006-05-04T20:19:30","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T20:19:30","slug":"i_am_not_an_ani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1201","title":{"rendered":"I Am Not An Animal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV>The <A href=\"http:\/\/www.mnopera.org\/\">Minnesota Opera<\/A> and the Humphrey Institute are co-sponsoring a public forum on Wednesday, May 10th entitled The Elephant Man: A Conversation on Disability, Policy, and Opera.&nbsp; More information on the event can be found in <A href=\"http:\/\/www.the19thfloor.net\/elephantmanforuminvite.pdf\">this PDF file<\/A>.&nbsp; This event is a tie-in to the Minnesota Opera&#8217;s new production of <EM>Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man<\/EM>.&nbsp; I&#8217;m anticipating a good discussion since the panelists include Senator David Durenberger and my friend John Tschida, Vice President of Public Affairs at Courage Center.&nbsp; My only knowledge of the Merrick&#8217;s story is from David Lynch&#8217;s film, which is probably much trippier in tone than this opera.&nbsp; I&#8217;d love to see part of the discussion focus on how people with disabilities are&nbsp; portrayed in other media venues.&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>I promised my friend Lani Willis, Communications Director at the Minnesota Opera, that I would spread the word about this event.&nbsp; I&#8217;m asking all of you to do the same.&nbsp; I mean, c&#8217;mon, how many times are we going to see an event with the words &#8220;disability&#8221; and &#8220;opera&#8221; in the title?&nbsp; <\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Opera and the Humphrey Institute are co-sponsoring a public forum on Wednesday, May 10th entitled The Elephant Man: A Conversation on Disability, Policy, and Opera.&nbsp; More information on the event can be found in this PDF file.&nbsp; This event is a tie-in to the Minnesota Opera&#8217;s new production of Joseph Merrick, the Elephant <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1201' 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-1201","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-jn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","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=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}