{"id":245,"date":"2003-10-10T20:47:35","date_gmt":"2003-10-10T20:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=245"},"modified":"2003-10-10T20:47:35","modified_gmt":"2003-10-10T20:47:35","slug":"come_together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Come Together"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rush Limbaugh admitted he’s an addict<\/a>. I hope he gets the treatment he needs, but I hope he recognizes that he now has a disability and stops bashing laws like the ADA. Addiction is a recognized disability under the ADA, although it only applies to addicts in recovery, which I find odd. I also find odd the reactions of many in the disability community to categorizing addiction as a disability. I once got flamed several times by people in a newsgroup discussion after I pointed out that addiction is and should be regarded as a disability. They howled that addicts choose to be addicts while they never chose to be disabled. The implied moral superiority in these statements annoyed the hell out of me. I absolutely believe in a genetic predisposition to addiction. And, as I’ve commented before, it disturbs me that an “us-vs.them” attitude persists in some quarters of the disability community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rush Limbaugh admitted he’s an addict. I hope he gets the treatment he needs, but I hope he recognizes that he now has a disability and stops bashing laws like the ADA. Addiction is a recognized disability under the ADA, although it only applies to addicts in recovery, which I find odd. I also find […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-245","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-3X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","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=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}