{"id":1712,"date":"2004-11-16T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-16T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2017-09-19T18:51:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T23:51:31","slug":"1712","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/16\/1712\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want My ADA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, please, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastvalleytribune.com\/index.php?sty=31416\" target=\"_new\">it <i>is<\/i> a mental illness<\/a>, making me a protected class completely unfireable in the workplace and able to seek special accommodation from the rest of you:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Animal hoarders are not necessarily mentally ill, said Gail Steketee, a psychologist at Boston University. &#8220;The best bet is to call it a wellintentioned behavior gone awry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Steketee is one of dozens of scientists who volunteer with the Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium in Boston, a group formed in 1997 to study the problem. There is no known treatment, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Animal hoarding, a term coined five years ago, is defined as collecting more animals than can be cared for, combined with a failure to realize the squalid conditions are hurting both the homeowner and the animals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Someone fund another study, and keep going until I get to collect Social Security for having large numbers of cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, please, it is a mental illness, making me a protected class completely unfireable in the workplace and able to seek special accommodation from the rest of you: Animal hoarders are not necessarily mentally ill, said Gail Steketee, a psychologist at Boston University. &#8220;The best bet is to call it a wellintentioned behavior gone awry.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16934,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/16934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}