{"id":60360,"date":"2015-02-08T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=60360"},"modified":"2015-02-08T11:17:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T16:17:42","slug":"open-letter-to-governor-cuomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=60360","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to Governor Cuomo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.image_.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-58702\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.image_.jpg?resize=300%2C229\" alt=\"letters-to-the-editor.image_\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.image_.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.image_.jpg?resize=150%2C114&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To the Editor:<\/p>\n<p>Dear Governor Cuomo,<\/p>\n<p>(Feb. 2015) I am a person with a disability.\u00a0 I have worked hard to be independent and not depend on my family for everything.\u00a0 But, I still need some help.\u00a0 Someday I would like to move into a supportive apartment and now I am worried that I will not be able to because of long waiting lists.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Cuomo will you please stop vetoing bills that will help people with disabilities?\u00a0 I am lucky, I have a supportive family, and they care for me.\u00a0 I am worried because twenty or thirty years down the road I may not have a family to help me.\u00a0 Then what would I do?\u00a0 Families cannot be caregivers forever!<\/p>\n<p>I work but I need help so I have a job coach.\u00a0 I need help when I go to a doctor\u2019s appointment so I can better understand what I am being told.\u00a0 I need help traveling to new places so I don\u2019t worry about getting lost.\u00a0 I need help with money management and shopping. I also need help with cooking and cleaning.<\/p>\n<p>The one thing that I am proud of is that I can advocate for myself and other people. I am a member of the Madison County Motivators and a member of The Arc of Madison Cortland.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of my friends have disabilities and many of them live at home with their parents who are older. I am worried about what will happen to them.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Erica Ostwald,\u00a0Madison County<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: Dear Governor Cuomo, (Feb. 2015) I am a person with a disability.\u00a0 I have worked hard to be independent and not depend on my family for everything.\u00a0 But, I still need some help.\u00a0 Someday I would like to move into a supportive apartment and now I am worried that I will not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-fHy","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.image_.jpg?fit=300%2C229&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}