{"id":416882,"date":"2010-03-11T14:33:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T19:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.rj.org,2010:\/rac\/\/2.2554"},"modified":"2010-03-11T14:38:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T19:38:54","slug":"equal-amusement-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/416882","title":{"rendered":"Equal Amusement For All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/25\/AR2010022505198.html\">this interesting piece from the Sunday Washington Post<\/a> on an &#8220;amusement park with a unique mission: to create a play space for individuals with special needs.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morganswonderland.com\/\">Morgan&#8217;s Wonderland<\/a>, named for founder Gordon Hartman&#8217;s daughter, is in San Antonio, Texas, already a travel destination for its other attractions. <\/p>\n<p>Hartman&#8217;s goal in financing and building Morgan&#8217;s Wonderland was to provide children with disabilities with an &#8220;opportunity to do things they&#8217;ve never done before, like ride in a swing or a carousel or sit with their family in a train.&#8221; When it opens, the park will have accessible rides and have special resources for children with both physical and intellectual disabilities and their parents, many of whom haven&#8217;t ever had the chance to enjoy family trips to fun parks because of a lack of accessibility. <\/p>\n<p>I just can&#8217;t imagine a better way to help kids who frequently feel alienated or different to have a wonderful, quintessentially childhood experience than to let them ride swings and rides at an amusement park. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/25\/AR2010022505198.html\">Check out the article<\/a> and contact me at 202.387.2800 or at <a href=\"mailto:slehman@rac.org\">slehman@rac.org<\/a> to find out more about what the Reform Movement and others do to establish equality of opportunity for all Americans, regardless of disability. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at this interesting piece from the Sunday Washington Post on an &#8220;amusement park with a unique mission: to create a play space for individuals with special needs.&#8221; Morgan&#8217;s Wonderland, named for founder Gordon Hartman&#8217;s daughter, is in San Antonio, Texas, already a travel destination for its other attractions. Hartman&#8217;s goal in financing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}