{"id":3107,"date":"2012-01-10T20:55:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T20:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3107"},"modified":"2012-01-10T20:55:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T20:55:42","slug":"life_goes_on_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3107","title":{"rendered":"Life Goes On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The local news media have been busy covering the story of a high school student who injured his spinal cord when he was checked during a hockey game. Hockey is the unofficial state sport in Minnesota, so the story is getting a lot of airtime. Some of the coverage has been more than a little overwrought, which is to be expected. But it also gives the unfortunate impression that the kid&#8217;s life is over because he can&#8217;t walk. My friend and colleagues Rachel Tschida has a wonderful piece in the Strib that provides a more nuanced take on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/opinion\/otherviews\/136977118.html\">life with a spinal cord injury<\/a>. Rachel&#8217;s husband, John, acquired a spinal cord injury many years ago and writes about how they both gradually adjusted to their new reality:<br \/><b><br \/>Those who have gone before you tell you ways to save time on personal cares and what stores are most wheelchair-friendly. You join new sports teams. Life goes on.<br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>My husband works full time and drives a van from his wheelchair. Our sons recently graduated from college, and our daughter will start high school in the fall. He figured out the parenting.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>We will soon celebrate our 24th wedding anniversary and are starting to imagine life as empty-nesters. He figured out how to be my husband.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The essay is honest and forthright, just like Rachel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local news media have been busy covering the story of a high school student who injured his spinal cord when he was checked during a hockey game. Hockey is the unofficial state sport in Minnesota, so the story is getting a lot of airtime. Some of the coverage has been more than a little <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3107' 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-3107","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-O7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107","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=3107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}