{"id":1344,"date":"2006-09-19T20:21:04","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T20:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2006-09-19T20:21:04","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T20:21:04","slug":"competitive_str","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1344","title":{"rendered":"Competitive Streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did anybody notice that the newest season of <i>The Amazing Race<\/i> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/primetime\/amazing_race10\/bios\/peter_sarah.shtml\">contestant with a disability<\/a>?&nbsp; Sarah is a triathlete who happens to be missing one of her lower legs.&nbsp; She&#8217;s already been the target of snide remarks from other contestants who were griping about her being able to pre-board flights.&nbsp; I fail to see how this gives her an advantage in the actual race, but this sort of reaction didn&#8217;t completely surprise me.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I was joking with my nurse that I should be compete on the next iteration of the show.&nbsp; I can just imagine the looks I would get as some rickshaw hauls my crippled ass through the streets of Pnomh Penh.&nbsp; It would be great fun until my ventilator gets crushed by a piece of luggage carelessly stowed in the overhead bin.&nbsp; Imagine the promo: &#8220;On the next Amazing Race, one of the contestants meets a tragic end!&nbsp; Tune in for this very special episode!&#8221;&nbsp; Cut to footage of me turning blue.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did anybody notice that the newest season of The Amazing Race has a contestant with a disability?&nbsp; Sarah is a triathlete who happens to be missing one of her lower legs.&nbsp; She&#8217;s already been the target of snide remarks from other contestants who were griping about her being able to pre-board flights.&nbsp; I fail to <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1344' 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-1344","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-lG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","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=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}