{"id":2713,"date":"2010-07-06T21:55:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T21:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2010-07-06T21:55:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T21:55:33","slug":"stranded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2713","title":{"rendered":"Stranded"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve written before about how technology malfunctions<\/a> can severely disrupt the life of someone with a disability. I was reminded of that again over the weekend when I discovered that my wheelchair’s drive system had completely failed. I can get around my home without much difficulty, but it’s too heavy to push any distance. And the combination of the holiday weekend and a not-so-helpful service provider means that it won’t get fixed until later this week. I may go into shock the next time sunlight hits my skin as I haven’t been able to leave my place in a few days. <\/p>\n

This is just another annoyance to endure, but I need to have a sit-down with my equipment and remind them who’s in charge. Or at least beg them to let me pretend I’m in charge. <\/p>\n

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I’ve written before about how technology malfunctions can severely disrupt the life of someone with a disability. I was reminded of that again over the weekend when I discovered that my wheelchair’s drive system had completely failed. I can get around my home without much difficulty, but it’s too heavy to push any distance. And […]<\/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-2713","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\/s9Iwau-stranded","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","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=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}