{"id":3841,"date":"2013-03-28T18:12:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T23:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3841"},"modified":"2013-03-28T17:29:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T22:29:42","slug":"what-i-really-mean-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3841","title":{"rendered":"What I Really Mean Is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writers for <em>The Onion<\/em> understand the bullshit that we gimps have to put up with at times. For example: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/amputee-inspires-others-not-to-lose-limbs,31758\/?ref=auto\">Amputee Inspires Others Not To Lose Limbs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Choice quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBret has taught me that I enjoy walking quite a bit and that I would like to continue doing so in the future,\u201d said family friend Leo Harris, 43, remarking upon how hard it would be to perform simple tasks such as getting into a car or putting on pants without the use of both legs. \u201cI look at him and appreciate how much I don\u2019t ever want to be an amputee or a paraplegic or bedridden or anything like that. It\u2019s a lesson I really owe to Bret.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve often been told I&#8217;m an inspiration. And while I understand that it&#8217;s meant as a compliment, it often carries the subtext of &#8220;I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m not you, you poor bastard.&#8221; The whole &#8220;inspiration&#8221; spiel is just the candy coating on a primal fear that most people are too polite to express, which is totally fine. I&#8217;m just glad to see <em>The Onion<\/em> call it out for what it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writers for The Onion understand the bullshit that we gimps have to put up with at times. For example: Amputee Inspires Others Not To Lose Limbs. Choice quote: \u201cBret has taught me that I enjoy walking quite a bit and that I would like to continue doing so in the future,\u201d said family friend Leo <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3841' 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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3841","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-ZX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841","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=3841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3842,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841\/revisions\/3842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}