{"id":920,"date":"2005-08-02T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=920"},"modified":"2005-08-02T21:00:16","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T21:00:16","slug":"comfort_zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"Comfort Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the hype surrounding Murderball, unfortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/08\/02\/film.murderball.ap\/index.html\">hasn&#8217;t resulted in great ticket sales<\/a> (I haven&#8217;t seen it yet myself; hopefully this weekend).  Some believe that moviegoers aren&#8217;t comfortable with an honest portrayal of people with disabilities.  Frankly, I think that&#8217;s bullshit.  Maybe I expect too much of people, but I can&#8217;t believe people continue to be turned off by the mere sight of people in wheelchairs.  Are we still that foreign to most people&#8217;s daily experiences?  Maybe the title confuses people; perhaps they think it&#8217;s sports-themed horror movie.  Or maybe it hasn&#8217;t been advertised enough on television or radio.<br \/>\nBut then again, maybe the notion of disability still does bother people.  I just came back from my building&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltownwatch.org\/nno\/\">National Night Out<\/a> deck party.  When I joined a group of people at one table, one person definitely did not seem thrilled with my presence at first.  Her body language was kind of defensive unit I started talking to her.  By the time I left that table, her attitude was much warmer, but perhaps it proves the point that it&#8217;s going to take more than a movie to get people comfortable with disability.  Perhaps I put too much faith in the better angels of human nature.  I just don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the hype surrounding Murderball, unfortunately, hasn&#8217;t resulted in great ticket sales (I haven&#8217;t seen it yet myself; hopefully this weekend). Some believe that moviegoers aren&#8217;t comfortable with an honest portrayal of people with disabilities. Frankly, I think that&#8217;s bullshit. Maybe I expect too much of people, but I can&#8217;t believe people continue to be <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=920' 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-920","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-eQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","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=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}