{"id":6295,"date":"2025-07-10T11:35:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T11:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=6295"},"modified":"2025-07-10T11:35:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T11:35:36","slug":"the-sign-of-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=6295","title":{"rendered":"The Sign of Respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"38\">\n<p data-start=\"40\" data-end=\"264\">I\u2019m Lila, 22 and hard of hearing. My best friend Riley is deaf. While chatting in sign language at our favorite caf\u00e9, a woman stormed over, demanding we stop because it made her \u201cuncomfortable\u201d and was \u201cdistracting\u201d her son.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"266\" data-end=\"493\">We calmly explained it was how we communicate, but she grew angrier. Riley shrank; I was stunned \u2014 until James, a kind waiter, stepped in. \u201cThe only disruption here is your prejudice,\u201d he said firmly. Applause quietly followed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"495\" data-end=\"610\">As the woman dragged her son away, he looked back, signed \u201cSorry,\u201d and asked how to say \u201cfriend.\u201d Riley showed him.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"612\" data-end=\"714\">James brought us cookies on the house. Another customer thanked us for sharing our beautiful language.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"716\" data-end=\"795\">As we stepped into the sunlight, Riley smiled and asked, \u201cSame time next week?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"797\" data-end=\"816\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">I nodded. \u201cAlways.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m Lila, 22 and hard of hearing. My best friend Riley is deaf. While chatting in sign language at our favorite caf\u00e9, a woman stormed over, demanding we stop because it made her \u201cuncomfortable\u201d and was \u201cdistracting\u201d her son. We calmly explained it was how we communicate, but she grew angrier. Riley shrank; I was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6300,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions\/6300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}