{"id":1814,"date":"2008-01-14T21:50:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T21:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2008-01-14T21:50:12","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T21:50:12","slug":"life_story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1814","title":{"rendered":"Life Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, I caught the second half of Today’s Man<\/a>, a documentary in PBS’ Independent Lens series. The subject of Today’s Man is Nicky Gottlieb, who was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome in his early twenties. People with Asperger’s tend to be extremely bright individuals who have great difficulty deciphering and responding to the cues of everyday social interactions. The film, directed by Nicky’s sister, tracks him over several years as he tries to find work and a place of his own. It doesn’t flinch from some of Nicky’s obsessive and occasionally irksome behaviors, which are on full display during a confrontation with a job supervisor. But the director’s love for her brother is what gives the documentary emotional heft. Check it out if you can. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, I caught the second half of Today’s Man, a documentary in PBS’ Independent Lens series. The subject of Today’s Man is Nicky Gottlieb, who was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome in his early twenties. People with Asperger’s tend to be extremely bright individuals who have great difficulty deciphering and responding to the cues of […]<\/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-1814","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-tg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","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=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}