{"id":3785,"date":"2007-11-01T00:04:11","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T07:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/01\/if-condescension-killed-this-poem-would-mass-murder-the-disabled\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T00:04:11","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T07:23:59","slug":"if-condescension-killed-this-poem-would-mass-murder-the-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3785","title":{"rendered":"If condescension killed, this poem would mass murder the disabled."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8220;My Right Wing Dad .net,&#8221; an oddly compelling blog of right-wing email forwards, <a href=\"http:\/\/myrightwingdad.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/fw-when-i-whine-beautiful.html\">a poem called &#8220;When I Whine.&#8221;<\/a> I think Jerry Lewis would find this poem beautiful.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, upon a bus, I saw a girl with golden hair<br \/>\nI looked at her and sighed and wished I was as fair.<br \/>\nWhen suddenly she rose to leave,<br \/>\nI saw her hobble down the aisle.<br \/>\nShe had one leg and used a crutch<br \/>\nBut as she passed, she passed a smile.<br \/>\nOh, God, forgive me when I whine<br \/>\nI have 2 legs, the world is mine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just the <em>first <\/em>stanza. The poet hasn&#8217;t even <em>gotten <\/em>to the blind kid who <em>thanks <\/em>sighted people for being willing to talk to a person like him. Go read, if you dare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8220;My Right Wing Dad .net,&#8221; an oddly compelling blog of right-wing email forwards, a poem called &#8220;When I Whine.&#8221; I think Jerry Lewis would find this poem beautiful. Today, upon a bus, I saw a girl with golden hair &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3785\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disabled-rights-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}