{"id":1873,"date":"2008-03-13T21:50:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T21:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2008-03-13T21:50:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T21:50:17","slug":"and_wheres_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1873","title":{"rendered":"And Where&#8217;s The Tin Cup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I neglected to mention in yesterday&#8217;s post that Spitzer&#8217;s successor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=88200224\">David Paterson<\/a>, is legally blind. The media keeps making reference to the fact that he doesn&#8217;t use a cane or a guide dog. If he put on a pair of dark glasses, would that convince them that he is really is blind? Maybe some reporter should drop a pin at Paterson&#8217;s first press conference, just to make sure he really has the super-sensitive hearing that we know is a universal trait shared by all blind people on the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I neglected to mention in yesterday&#8217;s post that Spitzer&#8217;s successor, David Paterson, is legally blind. The media keeps making reference to the fact that he doesn&#8217;t use a cane or a guide dog. If he put on a pair of dark glasses, would that convince them that he is really is blind? Maybe some reporter <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1873' 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-1873","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-ud","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","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=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}