{"id":2239,"date":"2004-02-05T21:07:37","date_gmt":"2004-02-05T21:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2004\/02\/05\/cirque-and-the-law\/"},"modified":"2004-02-05T21:07:37","modified_gmt":"2004-02-05T21:07:37","slug":"cirque-and-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2239","title":{"rendered":"cirque-and-the-law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EEOC finds that Cirque de Soleil discriminated against <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/ssistory.mpl\/ae\/2383490%22\">an acrobat and fired him<\/a> before he was to begin performances of <i>Mystere<\/i>.  They were afraid he&#8217;d infect his fellow acrobats with HIV.<br \/>\nHow exactly?<br \/>\nUnless the performance has added the scene, &quot;intro to the kama sutra,&quot; or suddenly the performers start sharing needles for that last high before the denoument, I don&#8217;t quite see how the other employees will contract the disease.  Oh wait, they must still be living in the 80&#8217;s.<br \/>\nCourtesy of <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.deafga.org\/PMachine\/comments.%22hp?id=46_0_1_0_C%22\">DISABLAWG<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EEOC finds that Cirque de Soleil discriminated against an acrobat and fired him before he was to begin performances of Mystere. They were afraid he&#8217;d infect his fellow acrobats with HIV. How exactly? Unless the performance has added the scene, &quot;intro to the kama sutra,&quot; or suddenly the performers start sharing needles for that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}