{"id":16719,"date":"2017-02-22T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=16719"},"modified":"2017-02-22T08:44:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T13:44:45","slug":"legally-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/22\/legally-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGALLY BLIND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I&#8217;ve been<\/strong><\/span> blind for about three years. Put wax paper in front of your eyes and that&#8217;s me. I see shapes but not details. I see the clock face but not the hands.<\/p>\n<p>A med-tech rubbed gel on my eyeballs, and sound waves bounced off my eyes. It was all vibrations.<\/p>\n<p>I miss reading. I miss the lowercase <em>g &#8212; <\/em>so sexy.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I don&#8217;t<\/strong><\/span> look blind &#8212; no cane or shades &#8212; so I thought I&#8217;d tell you.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24676\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blindfold-test-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"blindfold test\" width=\"258\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blindfold-test-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blindfold-test.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>fiction<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">I had an essay, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/sue-me-15022.html\">&#8220;Sue Me,&#8221;<\/a> at <em>City Journal<\/em> last week. A tenant sued me. <em>Not<\/em> fiction.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24113\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/great-names-in-rental-biz-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/great-names-in-rental-biz-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/great-names-in-rental-biz.jpg 455w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been blind for about three years. Put wax paper in front of your eyes and that&#8217;s me. I see shapes but not details. I see the clock face but not the hands. A med-tech rubbed gel on my eyeballs, and sound waves bounced off my eyes. It was all vibrations. I miss reading. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16719"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24951,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16719\/revisions\/24951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}