{"id":1326,"date":"2006-09-01T19:50:39","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T19:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2006-09-01T19:50:39","modified_gmt":"2006-09-01T19:50:39","slug":"righting_past_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1326","title":{"rendered":"Righting Past Wrongs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Star Tribune featured an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/561\/story\/646089.html\">editorial supporting the UN disability rights convention<\/a>.&nbsp; It lists several injustices and abuses inflicted upon people with disabilities, including deliberate refrigeration and spiking their food with radioactive isotopes.&nbsp; And while the worst of these horrors have receded into the forgetful recesses of history, we continue to face indignities.&nbsp; For example, a certain blogger&#8217;s siblings used to enjoy taking one of his hands and using it to lightly punch his nose while exuberantly saying, &#8220;Hey, stop hitting yourself!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When I become benevolent despot of my island nation, I&#8217;m going to establish a gimp-friendly version of The Hague where these offenses and many more will be redressed.&nbsp; All defendants will be tried <i>in absentia<\/i> until we have the appropriate extradition treaties in place.&nbsp; And I can guarantee fair trials, as I will serve as both judge and jury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Star Tribune featured an editorial supporting the UN disability rights convention.&nbsp; It lists several injustices and abuses inflicted upon people with disabilities, including deliberate refrigeration and spiking their food with radioactive isotopes.&nbsp; And while the worst of these horrors have receded into the forgetful recesses of history, we continue to face indignities.&nbsp; For example, <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1326' 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-1326","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-lo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","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=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}