{"id":2784,"date":"2010-10-14T20:58:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T20:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2010-10-14T20:58:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T20:58:51","slug":"constant_compan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2784","title":{"rendered":"Constant Companion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Bad Cripple blog, William Peace writes about his temporary forced bed rest and <a href=\"http:\/\/badcripple.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/me-and-my-wheelchair-love-story.html\">how keenly he misses his wheelchair<\/a>: <br \/><b><br \/>I miss my wheelchair, I miss the power it gives me to be independent. I  miss the feel of upholstery against my back. I miss pushing against the  tires and the intimate knowledge I have as to how I can direct it&#8217;s  forward thrust. Why I even miss the dirt I collect during the day on the wheelchair frame-an absence my lab misses as my tires clearly pick up  smells that are utterly fascinating. I miss watching a scary movie and  the way I slightly rock back and forth. I could go on but I miss my  wheelchair more than anyone can imagine. <br \/><\/b><br \/>I haven&#8217;t been without a wheelchair for more than a few hours in at least a decade, so it&#8217;s difficult for me to imagine being away from it for weeks at a time. It certainly wouldn&#8217;t take long for me to miss it. My wheelchair and ventilator are probably the two most vital devices in my life, but I feel a connection with my chair that simply doesn&#8217;t exist for my vent. The vent is a machine, but my chair is an extension of my personal space. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Bad Cripple blog, William Peace writes about his temporary forced bed rest and how keenly he misses his wheelchair: I miss my wheelchair, I miss the power it gives me to be independent. I miss the feel of upholstery against my back. I miss pushing against the tires and the intimate knowledge <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2784' 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-2784","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-IU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784","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=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}