{"id":901,"date":"2005-07-14T20:30:52","date_gmt":"2005-07-14T20:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=901"},"modified":"2005-07-14T20:30:52","modified_gmt":"2005-07-14T20:30:52","slug":"tropical_isle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Isle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received the coolest postcard from a friend who&#8217;s spending the summer in Hawaii.  Check it out:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"aloha.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/WWW.the19thfloor.net\/images\/aloha.jpg?resize=486%2C344\" width=\"486\" height=\"344\" \/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s like something from the Eisenhower era.  A sort of Technicolor dream version of Hawaii.<br \/>\nA friendly word of advice to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accesspress.org\/\">Access Press<\/a>, the local newspaper for the disability community: hire a fact checker.  Your current issue contains an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accesspress.org\/archive\/2005\/07\/story_ma-epd.htm\">article on MA-EPD<\/a>, the Medicaid buy-in program administered by my division at DHS.  The article contains several inaccuracies about the program that could have been easily avoided with one phone call to our staff.  It&#8217;s enough of a challenge to educate the public about this program without also having to dispel fears caused by someone else&#8217;s sloppy journalism.  No, I&#8217;m not angry.  Just disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received the coolest postcard from a friend who&#8217;s spending the summer in Hawaii. Check it out: It&#8217;s like something from the Eisenhower era. A sort of Technicolor dream version of Hawaii. A friendly word of advice to Access Press, the local newspaper for the disability community: hire a fact checker. Your current issue <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=901' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-901","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-ex","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","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=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}