{"id":53854,"date":"2022-10-26T13:25:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T20:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53854"},"modified":"2022-10-26T15:25:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T22:25:33","slug":"fetterman-stroke-sparks-debate-over-whats-seen-as-a-disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53854","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman stroke sparks debate over what\u2019s seen as a disability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman\u2019s (D) difficulties from his recent stroke and the media attention they\u2019ve garnered have sparked a debate about what counts as a disability and perceptions on who is able to serve.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman\u2019s health was center stage at a Tuesday night debate when he faced off agains<strong>t\u00a0<\/strong>Republican candidate\u00a0Mehmet Oz\u00a0\u2014 the only such contest between the two competitors in perhaps the nation\u2019s pivotal race for control of the Senate this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat used a closed captioning system throughout the debate to help him understand questions, and he sometimes struggled to form clear sentences. The performance has raised questions anew about whether voters will back Fetterman in next month\u2019s election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman\u2019s (D)&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53855,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53854\/revisions\/53855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}