{"id":3691,"date":"2014-12-08T15:30:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T15:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.in-good-hands.org\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2014-12-08T15:30:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T15:30:41","slug":"an-all-too-familiar-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/?p=3691","title":{"rendered":"An all-too-familiar story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Colin, one of our deaf-blind friends lives about half a mile from his local\u00a0town centre. There are roadworks throughout the town\u00a0causing congestion and a large build up of traffic at most times of the day. Colin has just started using his white long cane and has made this journey lots of times before. He described\u00a0a recent\u00a0experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;I was working in to town as usual and\u00a0went to cross the road via my\u00a0usual crossing. I\u00a0pressed the button and waited&#8230; nothing happened. Pressed it again, same result. I\u00a0did not know at the time but\u00a0<\/span>the crossing system had been switched off as it interfered with the roadworks traffic controls\u00a0and a black bag had been placed over the lights. After waiting for some time, I\u00a0tried to cross the road by waving my\u00a0cane in front of me\u00a0but was unable to do so due to heavy traffic and motorists failing to let me\u00a0cross.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Fortunately a good Samaritan came to my\u00a0aid. A woman, I\u00a0never found out who she was, standing on the opposite side of the road saw my\u00a0dilemna. She marched out in to middle of the road, held out her arms and stopped the traffic.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This highlights just one of the problems that our friends encounter on a day to day basis and highlights the need for greater awareness all round. It also underlines the need for more trained deafblind aware volunteers to support people like our friend Colin.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin, one of our deaf-blind friends lives about half a mile from his local\u00a0town centre. There are roadworks throughout the town\u00a0causing congestion and a large build up of traffic at most times of the day. Colin has just started using his white long cane and has made this journey lots of times before. He described\u00a0a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,158,43,87,159,160,161,54,63,55,74,68,79,69,113],"tags":[100,66,60,62,104,65,47],"class_list":["post-3691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-age-related-deafblindness","category-awareness","category-communication","category-communication-issues","category-deafblind-awareness","category-design","category-disability-awareness","category-guiding","category-health-age-related-deafblindness","category-hearing-loss","category-in-good-hands","category-independence","category-loss-of-vision","category-northumberland","category-scene","tag-age-related-deafblindness-2","tag-big-lottery","tag-communication","tag-deafblind-support","tag-disability","tag-older-people","tag-sensory-impairment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4671,"href":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions\/4671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}