{"id":61,"date":"2017-05-30T00:50:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T04:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mendingmisconceptions.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2017-05-30T00:50:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T04:50:42","slug":"you-can-only-step-on-the-sighteds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"You Can Only Step On The Sighteds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was originally posted on August 6, 2015, at 6:52 PM on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogger.com\">blogger.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>The events in this post occurred two days ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, I\u2019m sitting on the train, book bag on my lap, and my BrailleNote\u2014which is a braille computer\u2014on top of that when a woman gets onto the train. What caused this woman to stand out from the other traingoers, were her repeated \u201cexcuse me\u201d\u2019s as she walked past me.<\/p>\n<p>After about a minute or two she stops, and I see her standing near the pole (I assume she\u2019s holding on).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t just push like that,\u201d A woman with a light voice and Russian accent admonishes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, it seems like people don\u2019t understand the word \u2018excuse me\u2019. So what else I\u2019m supposed to do?\u201d Ms. Excuse Me sounded\u2026well, black.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I can\u2019t move anywhere. I can\u2019t step on her. She can\u2019t see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I look up innocently, my eyes wide. I know that the laughter is written all over my face.<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>So, were I able to see, it would have been perfectly alright to step on me?<\/p>\n<p>*a picture of my BrailleNote is included<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/B063E3BF-C276-482D-9FE1-16A1E1D3AA0E\/pastedGraphic.png\" alt=\"pastedGraphic.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was originally posted on August 6, 2015, at 6:52 PM on blogger.com *** The events in this post occurred two days ago&#8230; So, I\u2019m sitting on the train, book bag on my lap, and my BrailleNote\u2014which is a braille computer\u2014on top of that when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-public-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilymordaunt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}