{"id":1949,"date":"2008-05-30T15:16:22","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T15:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2008-05-30T15:16:22","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T15:16:22","slug":"approach_with_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1949","title":{"rendered":"Approach With Caution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt from an official guide for volunteers at the Beijing Olympics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/sport\/olympics\/article4009610.ece\">regarding appropriate disability etiquette<\/a>:<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nSome physically disabled are isolated, unsocial, and introspective. They can be stubborn and controlling . . . defensive and have a strong sense of inferiority.<\/b><br \/>\nAnd believe me, that&#8217;s on a good day.<br \/>\nIt goes on:<br \/>\n<b>They show no differences in sensation, reaction, memorisation and thinking mechanism from other people, but they might have unusual personalities because of disfigurement and disability.<br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\nWow, it&#8217;s like the people who wrote this book are talking about me.<br \/>\nI hope they didn&#8217;t leave out any vital information, like our hatred of sunlight and how we bring bad luck to anyone unfortunate enough to accidentally touch us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt from an official guide for volunteers at the Beijing Olympics regarding appropriate disability etiquette: Some physically disabled are isolated, unsocial, and introspective. They can be stubborn and controlling . . . defensive and have a strong sense of inferiority. And believe me, that&#8217;s on a good day. It goes on: They show <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1949' 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-1949","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-vr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","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=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}