{"id":1924,"date":"2008-05-05T20:42:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T20:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2008-05-05T20:42:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T20:42:20","slug":"more_of_the_sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1924","title":{"rendered":"More Of The Same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when I think that able-bodied couldn&#8217;t do anything that surprises me anymore, I come across something that makes me think that the most prrevalent disability is the chronic failure to get on board the clue train. A South African woman was unable to get an ID because the local bureaucrats told her she would need to submit fingerprints, despite the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theherald.co.za\/herald\/news\/n10_02052008.htm\">she had no arms<\/a>. I&#8217;m having flashbacks to all those times when physicians asked me to take a deep breath. Or the time when I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the19thfloor.net\/archives\/2003\/07\/camera_shy.html\">my own challenges getting an ID card<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>To the able-bodied people of the world: your collective ignorance and bias is starting to bore me. I debated even blogging about this story. In the future, you&#8217;re going to have to try a lot harder to get my attention.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when I think that able-bodied couldn&#8217;t do anything that surprises me anymore, I come across something that makes me think that the most prrevalent disability is the chronic failure to get on board the clue train. A South African woman was unable to get an ID because the local bureaucrats told her she would <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1924' 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-1924","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-v2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","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=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}