{"id":948,"date":"2005-08-30T21:25:32","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T21:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=948"},"modified":"2005-08-30T21:25:32","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T21:25:32","slug":"off_the_shelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"Off The Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch library is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2005\/08\/25\/wdutch25.xml\">&#8220;lending out&#8221; individuals representing marginalized groups<\/a>, including gays, Gypsies, and people with physical disabilities.  Library patrons can take these individuals to a nearby cafeteria and ask them questions for an hour.  I get what the library is trying to do, but I&#8217;m not sure I agree with the methodology.  It seems to reinforce the notion that there is something exotic or decidedly Other about these individuals and that they can be safely approached in a controlled environment.  At the same time, I understand that the average person&#8217;s social circle may never include people from these groups.  But shouldn&#8217;t we be more concerned about why these people are marginalized, instead of making them into cultural exhibits?<br \/>\nBut in the spirit of experimentation, I&#8217;m going to lend myself out to all of you.  I&#8217;ll answer the first five questions that are e-mailed to my <a href=\"mailto: mcsiegel19@gmail.com\">Gmail account<\/a>, regardless of content.  If you&#8217;ve had burning questions you&#8217;ve wanted to ask about my disability or anything else, now&#8217;s your chance.  The identities of all questioners will be kept anonymous, of course.  Let the interrogation begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch library is &#8220;lending out&#8221; individuals representing marginalized groups, including gays, Gypsies, and people with physical disabilities. Library patrons can take these individuals to a nearby cafeteria and ask them questions for an hour. I get what the library is trying to do, but I&#8217;m not sure I agree with the methodology. It seems <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=948' 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-948","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-fi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}