{"id":592,"date":"2004-09-08T22:26:42","date_gmt":"2004-09-08T22:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=592"},"modified":"2004-09-08T22:26:42","modified_gmt":"2004-09-08T22:26:42","slug":"crash_burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"Crash & Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poor NASA<\/a>. After successfully landing two rovers on the surface of Mars, you’d think that bringing a probe back to Earth would be a cinch. Best of luck to the scientists as they try to salvage some usable samples from the wreckage of Genesis.
\nI need to think of an innovative way of meeting women. On-line dating sites have lost their appeal to me. It feels too much like window shopping. Someone recently asked me if I would ever date a woman with a disability. As with a lot of hypothetical questions, the answer would be “it depends.” Five or ten years ago, I probably would have been a lot more reluctant to consider such a thing. Back then, I had the misguided notion that I had to be with someone able-bodied in order to “prove” to the world that I was just like everyone else. But now that I’m older and have a little more perspective on things, I see the appeal of dating someone with a disability. There wouldn’t be that initial period of awkwardness, when I always felt like I had to get the object of my affection to see me and not the extraneous stuff like wheelchair and the vent. We could start from perhaps a more common set of experiences and I wouldn’t have to do explain my whole life story. But like I said, it would depend on a lot more than her disability. And I really haven’t met that many women with disabilities in my peer group. I’m sure they’re out there, but not where I can find them.
\nBut if she is out there, able-bodied or not, she should send up a flare or something. Celibacy is all well and good for the godly and the principled, but I’m neither and it’s killing me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poor NASA. After successfully landing two rovers on the surface of Mars, you’d think that bringing a probe back to Earth would be a cinch. Best of luck to the scientists as they try to salvage some usable samples from the wreckage of Genesis. I need to think of an innovative way of meeting women. […]<\/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-592","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-9y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","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=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}