{"id":379451,"date":"2015-07-17T16:27:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T20:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/newyork\/?p=379451"},"modified":"2015-07-17T16:27:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T20:27:16","slug":"showing-our-disability-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/newyork\/showing-our-disability-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Showing our disability pride!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/newyork\/files\/2015\/07\/IMG_2389.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-379655\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/newyork\/files\/2015\/07\/IMG_2389-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2389\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/newyork\/files\/2015\/07\/IMG_2389-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/newyork\/files\/2015\/07\/IMG_2389.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday July 12<sup>th<\/sup>, 2015, \u00a0GiGi\u2019s Playhouse NYC joined other organizations, families, and individuals in the first ever Disability Pride Parade in New York City.\u00a0 The parade celebrated the 25<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the \u00a0historic passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which ensures civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities.\u00a0 The inaugural march attracted nearly 3,000 individuals from across the spectrum of the disability community.\u00a0 It was an honor to represent GiGi\u2019s Playhouse and the Down syndrome community while supporting and uplifting the bigger mission\u00a0of equal rights for all individuals with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Starting off in Madison Square Park, the parade was launched by former US Senator and sponsor of the ADA, Tom Harkin, and New York City Mayor, Bill DeBlasio.\u00a0 The procession continued ten blocks where it landed in Union Square Park to music and celebration!<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the success of this walk, Mayor DeBlasio declared July Disability Pride Month.\u00a0 This will be an annual celebration, and we are proud to have been part of its inception.<\/p>\n<p>[SlideDeck2 id=379897]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday July 12th, 2015, \u00a0GiGi\u2019s Playhouse NYC joined other organizations, families, and individuals in the first ever Disability Pride Parade in New York City.\u00a0 The parade celebrated the 25th anniversary of the \u00a0historic passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which ensures civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities.\u00a0 The inaugural march attracted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":314453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}