{"id":239506,"date":"2018-02-02T17:06:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T17:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/facingdisability.com\/blog\/?p=239506"},"modified":"2018-04-10T15:32:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T15:32:05","slug":"honest-wheelchair-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/blog\/honest-wheelchair-love-story","title":{"rendered":"An Honest Wheelchair Love Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>CNN covers a young woman named Kristen as she takes us along on a first date &#8211; all from the seat of her wheelchair.\u00a0 She says, &#8220;We all have our stuff.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro_separator\"><\/p>\n<p>Getting around in NYC is difficult for the disabled&#8230;even <strong><em>harder<\/em><\/strong> than dating. <!--more-->So when it comes time for Kristen to make social plans with a potential mate, she has to explain each time. It&#8217;s become part of who she is. &#8220;Only 35 percent of the train stations here are wheelchair accessible, and cabs pass me up all the time because they don&#8217;t want to fold and stow my chair.&#8221; It&#8217;s just one more thing on her list of extra things to do when she meets new people. Except &#8211; even her old friends tend to forget just how important accessibility is when they go places together.<\/p>\n<p>Kristen uses the app, <em>Hinge<\/em> to find potential matches. &#8220;It&#8217;s an automatic &#8216;no&#8217; if the guy isn&#8217;t wearing his shirt in the profile.&#8221; Watch as Kristen tells more honest truths about finding love and friendship in the naked city &#8211; all while disabled.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LoveStoryCNN\/videos\/143844976208361\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN covers a young woman named Kristen as she takes us along on a first date &#8211; all from the seat of her wheelchair.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":239508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}