{"id":1335,"date":"2006-09-10T17:31:49","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T17:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2006-09-10T17:31:49","modified_gmt":"2006-09-10T17:31:49","slug":"telling_it_like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"Telling It Like It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend and colleague John Tschida had an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/562\/story\/665084.html\">op-ed piece appear in yesterday&#8217;s Strib<\/a> expounding on the the oft-repeated maxim from Disability Advocacy 101: living with a disability is not an inherently tragic experience.&nbsp; What I like most about John&#8217;s piece is his unflinching honesty in recognizing the difficulties and frustrations in learning to exist with a disability.&nbsp; He also doesn&#8217;t condemn those individuals who choose not to pursue such an existence and have critical life supports withdrawn.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still not sure most people really get it when I explain that my quality of life is pretty good.&nbsp; I sometimes think it&#8217;s like trying to describe the flavor of some exotic dish; you can say it tastes like chicken, but that doesn&#8217;t really give the other person a clear idea of what you&#8217;re describing unless they experience it themselves.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Blogging may be light over the next couple days because my brother will be dropping by.&nbsp; I haven&#8217;t seen him since I was in Berlin last year and we&#8217;re going to do a little catching up before he goes off to California and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.edu\/\">ivory tower<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend and colleague John Tschida had an op-ed piece appear in yesterday&#8217;s Strib expounding on the the oft-repeated maxim from Disability Advocacy 101: living with a disability is not an inherently tragic experience.&nbsp; What I like most about John&#8217;s piece is his unflinching honesty in recognizing the difficulties and frustrations in learning to exist <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1335' 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-1335","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-lx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","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=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}