{"id":2923,"date":"2011-05-25T16:37:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T23:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-aboutdisabilities.pantheonsite.io\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2011-05-25T16:37:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T23:37:50","slug":"realities-of-disability-or-400-hogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/?p=2923","title":{"rendered":"Realities of disability or 400 hogs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"280\" height=\"165\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev-aboutdisabilities.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Disabled-Hit-Parade1.jpg?resize=280%2C165&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"disabled hit parade\" class=\"wp-image-2916\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-346\">Where the Hits Keep ComingSometimes songwriters get disability just right. It\u2019s not often. For every non-stereotypical, realistic portrayal of disability there\u2019s two dozen country weepers or maudlin overcoming narratives. Today, I was listening to my favorite radio station, KALX. It\u2019s UC Berkeley\u2019s award winning font of everything hip and groovy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Majority Whip, all the DJs have odd nom de plumes, played a Tom T. Hall song for Hall\u2019s 1936 birthday. I hadn\u2019t heard the song before. It\u2019s \u201cWho\u2019s Gonna Feed Them Hogs.\u201d Tom T. Hall is known as a storyteller with a country flair. If you haven\u2019t heard \u201cHarper Valley PTA\u201d it\u2019s a wonderful snapshot of the late 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns out the \u201cWho\u2019s Gonna Feed Them Hogs\u201d captures one of the realities of disability life. The story concerns a hospitalized hog farmer who is concerned about his livelihood with no one to feed his pigs while he\u2019s incapacitated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>I met him in a hospital about a year ago<br>And why I still remember him I guess I\u2019ll never know<br>He\u2019d lie there and cry out in a medicated fog,<br>\u201cHere I am in this dang bed and who\u2019s gonna feed them hogs?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems to me that this is what we worry about sometimes. How are we going to meet our responsibilities? How are we going to support ourselves? It\u2019s the real issues of disability. As I get older, even without hospitalization, they are thoughts that I have periodically. Fortunately, I don\u2019t have to get out of bed to sell 400 hogs so I don\u2019t go broke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where the Hits Keep ComingSometimes songwriters get disability just right. It\u2019s not often. For every non-stereotypical, realistic portrayal of disability there\u2019s two dozen country weepers or maudlin overcoming narratives. Today, I was listening to my favorite radio station, KALX. It\u2019s UC Berkeley\u2019s award winning font of everything hip and groovy. Majority Whip, all the DJs [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/?p=2923\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[4,8,10,14],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aboutdisability.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Disabled-Hit-Parade1.jpg?fit=280%2C165&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}