{"id":1753,"date":"2010-10-06T07:05:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T11:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2010-10-06T07:10:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T11:10:06","slug":"outing-retard-no-longer-sub-rosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/outing-retard-no-longer-sub-rosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Outing &#8220;Retard:&#8221;  No Longer Sub-Rosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world&#8217;s most effective disability advocates is my friend Tim Shriver. Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/timshriver.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/rosas-law-is-good-first-step.html\">his recent blog post<\/a>, all about Rosa&#8217;s Law, to be signed (hopefully) by the President, to help us all think about how language matters; words matter.\u00a0 Some of us may feel that this is an example of PC gone mad, but I think that is missing the big picture.\u00a0 We have all seen the hurtful and rampant usage of the word &#8220;Retard&#8221; and it is time to shelve it with all the other slurs we no longer dare use.\u00a0 No excuses.\u00a0 Just<a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialolympics.org\/spread-the-word-to-end-the-word.aspx\"> end the word<\/a> already.\u00a0 And make sure you pass this message onto those who use it without even thinking.\u00a0 If they don&#8217;t mean anything by it &#8212; why even say it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world&#8217;s most effective disability advocates is my friend Tim Shriver. Take a look at his recent blog post, all about Rosa&#8217;s Law, to be signed (hopefully) by the President, to help us all think about how language matters; words matter.\u00a0 Some of us may feel that this is an example of PC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-sh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}