{"id":108,"date":"2020-07-24T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ada30\/?p=108"},"modified":"2020-07-24T23:36:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T23:36:42","slug":"article-what-disability-pride-means-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ada30\/2020\/07\/24\/article-what-disability-pride-means-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Article: &#8220;What Disability Pride Means to Me&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Article Preview: &#8220;This July marks the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Americans With Disabilities Act in 1990. For the first time, Americans with disabilities were going to have equal opportunity and access like those without \u2014 or that\u2019s what was supposed to happen. There is still a lot of progress to be made 30 years later. All these years later, I\u2019m finally hearing about Disability Pride Month. I\u2019ve lived with\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/themighty.com\/topic\/cerebral-palsy\/\" target=\"_blank\">cerebral palsy<\/a>\u00a0for 27 years, and not once have I been aware of it. I didn\u2019t even know what disability pride even was. After looking around at other ways people identify themselves and celebrate pride, such as in the gay community, I\u2019m learning what disability pride means to me. Disability pride means that disability isn\u2019t a condition, it\u2019s a way of life. Disability pride means not living in shame of who you are simply because you cannot walk without a limp or are unable to work.&#8221; Continue reading this article by Becca R. at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/medical\/what-disability-pride-means-to-me\/ar-BB16Wit9?li=BBnba9O\">MSN.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Preview: &#8220;This July marks the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Americans With Disabilities Act in 1990. For the first time, Americans with disabilities were going to have equal opportunity and access like those without \u2014 or that\u2019s what was supposed to happen. There is still a lot of progress to be made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ada30\/2020\/07\/24\/article-what-disability-pride-means-to-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Article: &#8220;What Disability Pride Means to Me&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[2,10,60,29,58,38,39],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-external-news","tag-ada30","tag-americans-with-disabilities-act","tag-cerebral-palsy","tag-disability","tag-disability-identity","tag-disability-pride","tag-disability-pride-month"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc8OuP-1K","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ada30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ada30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ada30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ada30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ada30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ada30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ada30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ada30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ada30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ada30\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}