{"id":877,"date":"2005-06-21T18:56:15","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T18:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=877"},"modified":"2005-06-21T18:56:15","modified_gmt":"2005-06-21T18:56:15","slug":"they_send_lette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"They Send Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cary Tennis, the advice columnist over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/\">Salon<\/a>, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/mwt\/col\/tenn\/2005\/06\/21\/wheelchair\/index.html\">posted a response<\/a> to a letter from a young woman who recently became physically disabled.  The woman is struggling with adjusting to life with a disability, including the sometimes inconsiderate behavior of other people.  Tennis&#8217; response is a bit florid, but he demonstrates a surprising level of awareness in regards to disability rights and culture.  He actually suggests to the woman to consider some kind of activism.  He writes, &#8220;Further, I must say, when I see people in wheelchairs going about the city, I&#8217;m not glad they&#8217;re disabled, but I&#8217;m glad that they&#8217;re living life.&#8221;  Which, really, is all we can hope for anyone.<br \/>\nThanks to Susannah for pointing that out to me.<br \/>\nLots of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geofftaylor.btinternet.co.uk\/gallerytwotw.html\">War of the Worlds hype out in Geek Land<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkhorse.com\/zones\/wotw\/wotw_popup.php?p=0\">Dark Horse is doing a serialized webcomic<\/a> of WotW based on H.G. Wells&#8217; original text.  If the panels they&#8217;ve published so far are any indication, it should be supercool.  Wonder if they&#8217;ll do a dead-tree version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cary Tennis, the advice columnist over at Salon, has posted a response to a letter from a young woman who recently became physically disabled. The woman is struggling with adjusting to life with a disability, including the sometimes inconsiderate behavior of other people. Tennis&#8217; response is a bit florid, but he demonstrates a surprising level <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=877' 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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","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-e9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","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=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}