{"id":356,"date":"2011-05-24T16:04:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T16:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/?p=356"},"modified":"2014-08-28T17:27:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T17:27:48","slug":"the-silver-scorpion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/the-silver-scorpion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silver Scorpion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Free Comic Book Day 2011, the Open Hands Initiative introduced the world to the Silver Scorpion, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/54721700\/Silver-Scorpion\">the first edition of the new comic book series<\/a> developed by American and Syrian youth disability advocates who participated in the 2010 <a href=\"..\/..\/youthAbilitySummit\/youthAbilitySummit.html\">Youth Ability Summit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Silver Scorpion&#8221; is more than a superhero; it represents a new phase of US-Arab and Muslim public diplomacy efforts, and serves as a cross-cultural hero for the world that promotes tolerance, inclusion and equality.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Silver Scorpion below, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/news\/American%20and%20Syria%20Youths%20Create%20New%20Disabled%20Superhero%20The%20Silver%20Scorpion.pdf\">learn more about it<\/a>, or watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ik-bLNKWE-M\">how the comic book was created<\/a>. A larger, magazine-sized collector version of the first issue is also available for order via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magcloud.com\/browse\/Issue\/178024\">HP\u2019s Magcloud<\/a> print on demand service.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Silver Scorpion on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/54721700\/Silver-Scorpion\">Silver Scorpion<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(\"script\"); scribd.type = \"text\/javascript\"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = \"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/javascripts\/embed_code\/inject.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Free Comic Book Day 2011, the Open Hands Initiative introduced the world to the Silver Scorpion, the first edition of the new comic book series developed by American and Syrian youth disability advocates who participated in the 2010 Youth Ability Summit. The &#8220;Silver Scorpion&#8221; is more than a superhero; it represents a new phase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,12],"tags":[18,96],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silver-scorpion","category-syria","tag-comic-book","tag-disability-and-accessibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}