{"id":4145,"date":"2011-01-13T19:13:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T03:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4145"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:20:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:20:17","slug":"what-people-with-downs-syndrome-used-to-be-called","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/what-people-with-downs-syndrome-used-to-be-called\/","title":{"rendered":"What People With Down&#8217;s Syndrome Used to Be Called"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/downs-syndrome-mongolian-id.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4146\" title=\"downs-syndrome-mongolian-id\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/downs-syndrome-mongolian-id.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/downs-syndrome-mongolian-id.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/downs-syndrome-mongolian-id-340x232.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Difference between an idiot, a moron, and an imbicile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/the-words-moron-imbecile-and-idiot-mean-different-things\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn the Difference Between an Idiot, a Moron, and an Imbicile<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before \u201cDown\u2019s Syndrome\u201d was called such, people with Down\u2019s syndrome were called \u201cMongolian idiots\u201d and the syndrome itself was called \u201cmongolism\u201d.\u00a0 This comes from the fact that people thought that Down\u2019s syndrome individuals resembled Mongolians.\u00a0 So next time you feel like offending as many people as possible, be sure and use the term \u201cMongolian idiot\u201d when referring to people with Down\u2019s syndrome.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn the Difference Between an Idiot, a Moron, and an Imbicile Text Version Before \u201cDown\u2019s Syndrome\u201d was called such, people with Down\u2019s syndrome were called \u201cMongolian idiots\u201d and the syndrome itself was called \u201cmongolism\u201d.\u00a0 This comes from the fact that people thought that Down\u2019s syndrome individuals resembled Mongolians.\u00a0 So next time you feel [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1154,1155],"class_list":["post-4145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-etymology-down-syndrome","tag-etymology-mongaloid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}