{"id":2325,"date":"2004-10-27T17:08:36","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T17:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2004\/10\/27\/on-being-a-patriot-and-ada-violations\/"},"modified":"2004-10-27T17:08:36","modified_gmt":"2004-10-27T17:08:36","slug":"on-being-a-patriot-and-ada-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2325","title":{"rendered":"on-being-a-patriot-and-ada-violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Listening to:<\/i> Tales of a Librarian &#8211; Tori Amos<br \/>\nI realized today that people are all too willing to help out when touch screens aren&#8217;t accessible for voting.  Yes, it&#8217;s not one size fits all.  And though I find it very sweet when the volunteers hold the screen up, move it closer, or even turn it upside down so I can hit the blinking &quot;vote&quot; button, I do tend to get nervous when that same nice volunteer starts making remarks about my choices!  Had they been snide, I would have ruined the entire experience for everyone currently in that room.  Needless to say it was an interesting day.<br \/>\nI voted.  I waited in line for an hour in no air-conditioning to vote, but it&#8217;s done.  Two people almost commited vehicular homicide, but my scooter and I got there in one piece.  Seriously, who&#8217;s bright idea was it to set up an early voting site right across from a high school and elementary school with <b>no<\/b> sidewalk.  San Antonio just doesn&#8217;t believe in sidewalks apparently.  And then they&#8217;re so baffled as to why they&#8217;re so many wheelchair fatalities on the roads.<br \/>\nAnyway, go vote!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to: Tales of a Librarian &#8211; Tori Amos I realized today that people are all too willing to help out when touch screens aren&#8217;t accessible for voting. Yes, it&#8217;s not one size fits all. And though I find it very sweet when the volunteers hold the screen up, move it closer, or even turn [&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-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","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=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}