{"id":48583,"date":"2015-02-26T18:30:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T18:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/thursday_morning_encouragement-a_movie_theater_with_a_mission_employing_th\/"},"modified":"2015-02-26T18:30:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T18:30:39","slug":"thursday_morning_encouragement-a_movie_theater_with_a_mission_employing_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48583","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Morning Encouragement&#8211;A Movie Theater With a Mission: Employing the Disabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only 20 percent of disabled people work, compared to 68 percent of those who aren&#8217;t disabled, according to September 2014 numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>[Valeria] Jensen saved the playhouse from demolition and founded the four-theater commercial movie house, a nonprofit, in historic Ridgefield. Most of the more than 80 theater employees are disabled. But they weren&#8217;t there just because they have a disability, Jensen said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re here because they are a really, really valuable employee,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are &#8216;The Prospector&#8217; after all,&#8221; she noted. &#8220;And as prospectors I work with my prospects to find out what their sparkle is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/making-a-difference\/movie-theater-mission-employing-disabled-n313021\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 20 percent of disabled people work, compared to 68 percent of those who aren&#8217;t disabled, according to September 2014 numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. [Valeria] Jensen saved the playhouse from demolition and founded the four-theater commercial movie<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48583\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,175,135,149,168,104,597,93,177,107,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-charitiesnon-profit-organizations","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-movies-television","category-pastoral-theology","category-ruraltown-life","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}