{"id":1648,"date":"2007-07-25T19:56:50","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T19:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2007-07-25T19:56:50","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T19:56:50","slug":"true_romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1648","title":{"rendered":"True Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a music video<\/a> about two star-crossed lovers: a beautiful blonde woman and a young man with Down’s Syndrome. The video strikes just the right tone: bittersweet but not maudlin. I particularly liked the treatment of the woman’s standoffish best friend. Thanks to BoingBoing for the tip<\/a> (and mad propz to the BB team for being so clued into the disability scene).<\/p>\n

And I just e-mailed the Current DJ to correct him on a poetry reference he made. Despite my best intentions over the years, I can never seem to completely suppress my know-it-all tendencies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a music video about two star-crossed lovers: a beautiful blonde woman and a young man with Down’s Syndrome. The video strikes just the right tone: bittersweet but not maudlin. I particularly liked the treatment of the woman’s standoffish best friend. Thanks to BoingBoing for the tip (and mad propz to the BB team for […]<\/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-1648","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-qA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","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=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}