{"id":694,"date":"2004-12-17T20:34:51","date_gmt":"2004-12-17T20:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=694"},"modified":"2004-12-17T20:34:51","modified_gmt":"2004-12-17T20:34:51","slug":"fall_from_grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"Fall From Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve only just begun to take notice of David Blunkett’s resignation as UK Home Secretary. I didn’t realize he was blind and, as this article notes<\/a>, his story could be an interesting model for future leaders with disabilities. Here is a man with a disability who rose to the highest echelon of British politics. But he’s no Supercrip. Like everyone else, he has flaws that have been on full display to the British public. In a way, his story is refreshing because of the scandal. I’ve certainly fucked with people’s expectations of me as some wide-eyed innocent, but Blunkett has me beat.
\nHere’s a picture of me in front of the USS Constellation moored in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor:
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\nAnd here’s a photo of a rather unfriendly-looking shark in the Aquarium:
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I’ve only just begun to take notice of David Blunkett’s resignation as UK Home Secretary. I didn’t realize he was blind and, as this article notes, his story could be an interesting model for future leaders with disabilities. Here is a man with a disability who rose to the highest echelon of British politics. But […]<\/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-694","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-bc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","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=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}