{"id":4650,"date":"2015-06-09T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2017new.changingpaces.com\/?p=4650"},"modified":"2021-09-29T16:14:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T20:14:42","slug":"pro-infirmis-because-who-is-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/changingpaces.com\/pro-infirmis-because-who-is-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Infirmis &#8211; Because who is perfect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E8umFV69fNg\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Disabled mannequins are\u00a0eliciting astonished looks from passers-by on Zurich&#8217;s Bahnhofstrasse. Between the perfect mannequins, there will be figures with scoliosis or brittle bone disease modelling the latest fashions. One has\u00a0shortened limbs; the other a malformed spine.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign was\u00a0devised for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities by Pro Infirmis, an organisation for the disabled.\u00a0Entitled &#8220;Because who is perfect? Get closer.&#8221;, it is designed to provoke reflection on the acceptance of people with disabilities. Director Alain Gsponer has captured the campaign as a short film.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The figures are life-sized, three-dimensional representations of Miss Handicap 2010, Jasmin Rechsteiner, radio presenter and film critic Alex Oberholzer, track and field athlete Urs Kolly, blogger Nadja Schmid and actor Erwin Aljukic.<br \/>\n&#8220;We often go chasing after ideals instead of accepting life in all its diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Pro Infirmis strives especially for the acceptance of disability and the inclusion of <a href=\"https:\/\/changingpaces.com\/\"><strong>People with Disabilities<\/strong><\/a>,&#8221; says Mark Zumb\u00fchl, a member of the Pro Infirmis Executive Board, in describing the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>To view this or other videos go to <a title=\"you tube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E8umFV69fNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">you tube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disabled mannequins are\u00a0eliciting astonished looks from passers-by on Zurich&#8217;s Bahnhofstrasse. Between the perfect mannequins, there will be figures with scoliosis or brittle bone disease modelling the latest fashions. One has\u00a0shortened limbs; the other a malformed spine. The campaign was\u00a0devised for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities by Pro Infirmis, an organisation for the disabled.\u00a0Entitled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,274],"tags":[232,233,234,115,235,236,237,238,169,239,240,241,242,194,243,244,245,246,247,248,174,249,250,251],"class_list":["post-4650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-types-of-disabilities","tag-anxiety","tag-chronic-fatigue","tag-chronic-health","tag-chronic-illness-2","tag-chronic-illness-and-disability","tag-chronic-illness-diagnosis-support","tag-chronic-illness-management","tag-chronic-stress","tag-depression","tag-depression-diagnosis","tag-diabetes","tag-diagnosed-with-multiple-sclerosis","tag-diagnosis","tag-disability","tag-disease","tag-empowerment","tag-fibromyalgia","tag-illness","tag-medical-diagnosis","tag-mental-health-illness","tag-mental-illness","tag-newly-diagnosed","tag-signs-of-illness","tag-symptoms-of-illness"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/changingpaces.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/changingpaces.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/changingpaces.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/changingpaces.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/changingpaces.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/changingpaces.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15532,"href":"https:\/\/changingpaces.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions\/15532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/changingpaces.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/changingpaces.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/changingpaces.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/changingpaces.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}