{"id":800,"date":"2005-04-05T21:56:57","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T21:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=800"},"modified":"2005-04-05T21:56:57","modified_gmt":"2005-04-05T21:56:57","slug":"sit_down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=800","title":{"rendered":"Sit Down!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beauty pageants should have died along with vinyl records and disco. But for some reason, they persist. And as long as there are beauty pageants, there will be scandal. The Wisconsin Miss Wheelchair has been dethroned<\/a> after she was photographed standing up and the picture ran in a local newspaper. The woman in question has a form of muscular dystrophy and uses a scooter for mobility, but she can still stand. The pageant officials were miffed by this revelation and stripped her of her title. Silly, yes? The pageant officials seem to regard disability as an all-or-nothing proposition. Either you use a wheelchair or you don’t. Look, if you want to have a pageant for women with disabilities, fine. But the rigid requirement that your contestants be in wheelchairs all the time seems to fetishize the wheelchair to the point it’s a little creepy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beauty pageants should have died along with vinyl records and disco. But for some reason, they persist. And as long as there are beauty pageants, there will be scandal. The Wisconsin Miss Wheelchair has been dethroned after she was photographed standing up and the picture ran in a local newspaper. The woman in question has […]<\/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-800","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\/s9Iwau-sit_down","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","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=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}