{"id":15386,"date":"2012-08-31T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2012\/08\/31\/is-it-brave-to-exist\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:14","slug":"is-it-brave-to-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2012\/08\/31\/is-it-brave-to-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it brave to exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw this on the telly in the pub: a tandem bicycle event from the Paralympics. One of the people on the bike&#8221;&#8221;<em>presumably<\/em> just one of them&#8221;&#8221;is visually impaired.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>My childhood best friend was in a wheelchair, and in the course of our friendship I developed a real distaste for the condescending way people speak about the disabled as &#8220;brave&#8221;, or use them as a reminder to feel better about their own situation. The Paralympics drive up all those feelings again.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>That said, there is something awfully damned inspiring and moving about their achievements.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw this on the telly in the pub: a tandem bicycle event from the Paralympics. One of the people on the bike&#8221;&#8221;presumably just one of them&#8221;&#8221;is visually impaired. My childhood best friend was in a wheelchair, and in the course of our friendship I developed a real distaste for the condescending way people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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-15386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}