{"id":3574,"date":"2012-10-19T17:23:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T22:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2012-10-19T17:23:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T22:23:05","slug":"on-the-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3574","title":{"rendered":"On The Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I hope to watch the latest installment of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howsyournews.com\/\">How\u2019s Your News?<\/a><\/em> and its coverage of the recent national political conventions. <em>How\u2019s Your News?<\/em>\u00a0sends reporters with developmental disabilities to interview politicians, celebrities, and other newsworthy figures. The results can be sweet or funny, but they also serve as microcosm of society\u2019s reactions to disability. Some interviewees are clearly uncomfortable and can\u2019t wait for the encounter to end, while others are much more engaging. How\u2019s Your News receives significant support from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, so the show\u2019s tone is suitably irreverent and never mawkish.<\/p>\n<p>The Election 2012 episode of <em>How\u2019s Your News?<\/em> can be streamed or downloaded for $5. <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/10\/18\/hows-your-news-election-201.html\">BoingBoing<\/a> has more in-depth coverage.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I hope to watch the latest installment of How\u2019s Your News? and its coverage of the recent national political conventions. How\u2019s Your News?\u00a0sends reporters with developmental disabilities to interview politicians, celebrities, and other newsworthy figures. The results can be sweet or funny, but they also serve as microcosm of society\u2019s reactions to disability. <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3574' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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":[14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disability","category-politics","category-14-id","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-VE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574","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=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3575,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions\/3575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}