{"id":1267,"date":"2006-07-07T19:31:18","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T19:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2006-07-07T19:31:18","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T19:31:18","slug":"master_of_my_do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"Master Of My Domain"},"content":{"rendered":"

I always liked those scenes in science fiction movies where someone walks into a room, says, “Lights” and voila, the lights turn on.  I would sometimes dream about living in a house that would respond to my every command, a house where I could turn on the television or switch off the lights without waiting for a sibling or parent to become available.  When I started living on my own with 24-hour nursing care, that desire seemed less urgent.  After all, a nurse is always around to press a button or flip a switch whenever I ask.  However, I’m beginning to think that some sort of environmental control unit<\/A> might be in order in the near future.  As much as I value my nurses, I would like to be able to fast forward my TiVo or select a chapter on a DVD without relying on someone else’s fingers.  I can do much of that on my computer, but I would like to get away from my desk once in a while and see the rest of my living room. <\/DIV>
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So if you are or know someone who is an assistive technology dealer, hook me up.  If I can get a decent system for even a semi-reasonable price, I will gladly and shamelessly shill for your product on this blog.<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I always liked those scenes in science fiction movies where someone walks into a room, says, “Lights” and voila, the lights turn on.  I would sometimes dream about living in a house that would respond to my every command, a house where I could turn on the television or switch off the lights without waiting […]<\/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-1267","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-kr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","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=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}