{"id":3597,"date":"2012-10-31T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2012-10-31T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T00:16:00","slug":"emergency-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3597","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fallout from Hurricane Sandy is making life difficult for people with disabilities in the New York City. I&#8217;ve been following the Facebook postings of Nick Dupree (I&#8217;ve written previously about Nick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickscrusade.org\/about\/\">here<\/a>), who has muscular dystrophy and lives in a lower Manhattan apartment with his partner. They&#8217;ve been without power and regular nursing care since Monday and have had to scrounge up car batteries to keep Nick&#8217;s ventilator running. They seem to be receiving help with nursing coverage and supplies from friends and neighbors, but I&#8217;m sure this disaster has been stressful on them both.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how I would get by in a similar situation. I have some extra vent batteries and other supplies, but living on the 19th floor wouldn&#8217;t be terribly convenient in a blackout. And I have no idea what I would do if my nurses couldn&#8217;t be here. Probably beg for help via Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fallout from Hurricane Sandy is making life difficult for people with disabilities in the New York City. I&#8217;ve been following the Facebook postings of Nick Dupree (I&#8217;ve written previously about Nick here), who has muscular dystrophy and lives in a lower Manhattan apartment with his partner. They&#8217;ve been without power and regular nursing care <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3597' 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disability","category-14-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-W1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597","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=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3598,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions\/3598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}