{"id":2509,"date":"2008-05-20T14:01:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T18:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2008-05-20T14:01:52","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T18:01:52","slug":"identical-paper-rectangles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2509","title":{"rendered":"Identical Paper Rectangles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I admit I'd never thought of this, but obviously, blind people can't tell a five dollar bill from a fifty dollar bill. Blind people know this, of course, and have successfully sued the federal govt to so something about it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/24725916\/\">The U.S. discriminates<\/a> against blind people by printing paper money that makes it impossible for them to distinguish among the bills' varying values, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upholds a decision by a lower court in 2006. It could force the Treasury Department to redesign its money. Suggested changes have ranged from making bills different sizes to printing them with raised markings.<\/p>\n<p>The American Council for the Blind sued for such changes but the Treasury Department has been fighting the case for about six years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vending machine vendors will be angry about this, I imagine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit I'd never thought of this, but obviously, blind people can't tell a five dollar bill from a fifty dollar bill. Blind people know this, of course, and have successfully sued the federal govt to so something about it: The U.S. discriminates against blind people by printing paper money that makes it impossible for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}