{"id":1928,"date":"2008-05-09T13:11:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T13:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2008-05-09T13:11:16","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T13:11:16","slug":"the_famous_peop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1928","title":{"rendered":"The Famous People In My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love it when cool things happen to cool people I know. Mike Phillips, who is 27 and has spinal muscular atrophy, is featured on the season debut of Ira Glass&#8217;s <i>This American Life<\/i>. I know Mike mostly through his writings on various Mac-related websites (yes, I read Mac sites even though I don&#8217;t own a single Mac; me=sad poseur) and I&#8217;m also Facebook friends with Mike&#8217;s girlfriend Sara (who totally owned me on Scrabulous). The episode, which is centered on the theme of &#8220;Escape&#8221;, details Mike&#8217;s efforts to live independently after years of depending on his mom for his daily cares. A short clip is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sho.com\/site\/video\/brightcove\/series\/title.do?bcpid=1305025359&amp;bclid=1540978880\">here<\/a> and more details on the episode can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/media-dis-n-dat.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/this-american-life-focuses-on-disabled.html\">here<\/a>, including a great picture of Mike and Sara.<\/p>\n<p>Since I don&#8217;t get Showtime and the episode isn&#8217;t yet available on iTunes, I&#8217;m forced to obtain it through less scrupulous methods. Legal niceties won&#8217;t stand in the way of me supporting a fellow member of the SMA clubhouse. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love it when cool things happen to cool people I know. Mike Phillips, who is 27 and has spinal muscular atrophy, is featured on the season debut of Ira Glass&#8217;s This American Life. I know Mike mostly through his writings on various Mac-related websites (yes, I read Mac sites even though I don&#8217;t own <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1928' 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-1928","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-v6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","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=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}