{"id":395,"date":"2004-03-01T20:23:05","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T20:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=395"},"modified":"2004-03-01T20:23:05","modified_gmt":"2004-03-01T20:23:05","slug":"bad_manners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Bad Manners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kucinich apparently isn’t the only presidential candidate who could use some training in disability etiquette. Here’s an article<\/a> describing how John Edwards allegedly patted some people using wheelchairs on the head. Thanks to morvern for the heads-up. I should start a consulting business for political candidates, running them through the do’s and don’ts of interacting with people with disabilities. I wonder how much I could charge before people accused me of being exorbitant. I’ve actually considered getting into the consulting game at some point. You’d be surprised at the number of businesses that still don’t have a clue about how to deal with disabilities, either from an employment or customer perspective. It’s definitely better than it was a decade ago; most of the big corporations have the basics down. It’s the mid-sized and small businesses that could use more attention.
\nAnd here are two of my favorite people on the Net: Susannah Breslin and Warren Ellis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kucinich apparently isn’t the only presidential candidate who could use some training in disability etiquette. Here’s an article describing how John Edwards allegedly patted some people using wheelchairs on the head. Thanks to morvern for the heads-up. I should start a consulting business for political candidates, running them through the do’s and don’ts of interacting […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","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-6n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","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=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}