{"id":1179,"date":"2008-09-04T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2015-08-28T10:49:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T14:49:37","slug":"wheelchairs-keep-you-from-ever-having-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/09\/04\/wheelchairs-keep-you-from-ever-having-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheelchairs keep you from EVER having fun."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So implies this ad for Goodyear Tires from the August 2, 1937 issue of Life. Everyone looks depressed about the fact that the boy&#8217;s in a wheelchair, from the boy himself to his sister and even the dog. I&#8217;d be kind of depressed too if I were teetering on the edge of a porch [notice that Sis has one leg up on a step] without a freakin&#8217; guard rail.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the equation of wheelchair use and complete cessation of enjoyable life, also note ad&#8217;s use to guilt to sell you tires: &quot;Buy these tires or your son will end up CRIPPLED and MISERABLE because YOU didn&#8217;t by blow-out-proof tires.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, <a href=\"http:\/\/graphic-design.tjs-labs.com\/index\">Gallery of Graphic Design,<\/a> for this ad, along with an endless bounty of other 20th-century ads.<br \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/blog\/ads\/goodyeartires.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So implies this ad for Goodyear Tires from the August 2, 1937 issue of Life. Everyone looks depressed about the fact that the boy&#8217;s in a wheelchair, from the boy himself to his sister and even the dog. I&#8217;d be kind of depressed too if I were teetering on the edge of a porch [notice&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/09\/04\/wheelchairs-keep-you-from-ever-having-fun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wheelchairs keep you from EVER having fun.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[647],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-people-with-disabilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6046,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/6046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}