{"id":214,"date":"2023-02-20T18:26:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T18:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ma21alliance.wpengine.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2023-03-15T03:27:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T03:27:07","slug":"boston-globe-opinion-adults-with-developmental-disabilities-deserve-real-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ma21alliance.org\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Boston Globe Opinion: Adults with developmental disabilities deserve Real Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Although the Real Lives law, guaranteeing the right to self-direct and ordering the Department of Developmental Services to make it happen, was passed in 2014, DDS didn\u2019t even propose regulations governing self-direction until a few months ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1zKMsFrV4Xvbny5lTh6NuCcHc0cF_Q-Vc\/view\"><strong>Boston Globe Opinion: Adults with developmental disabilities deserve Real Lives by Deborah Flaschen &#8211; February 20, 2023<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the Real Lives law, guaranteeing the right to self-direct and ordering the Department of Developmental Services to make it happen, was passed in 2014, DDS didn\u2019t even propose regulations governing self-direction until a few months ago. Boston Globe Opinion: Adults with developmental disabilities deserve Real Lives by Deborah Flaschen &#8211; February 20, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-op-eds"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.ma21alliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/the-boston-globe-logo-png-transparent-600x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.ma21alliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/the-boston-globe-logo-png-transparent-600x600.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Katerina Daley","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ma21alliance.org\/?author=3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ma21alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ma21alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ma21alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ma21alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ma21alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ma21alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ma21alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ma21alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ma21alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ma21alliance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}