{"id":995,"date":"2022-03-10T10:03:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T23:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/?p=995"},"modified":"2023-05-23T10:28:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T00:28:55","slug":"damien-flanagan-canberra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/2022\/03\/10\/damien-flanagan-canberra\/","title":{"rendered":"Damien"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/03\/Damien-Flanagan-Facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/03\/Damien-Flanagan-Facebook.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/03\/Damien-Flanagan-Facebook-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/03\/Damien-Flanagan-Facebook-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/03\/Damien-Flanagan-Facebook-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/03\/Damien-Flanagan-Facebook-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By<\/strong> <strong>Damien Flanagan, ACT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My name is Damien Flanagan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I work at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetradies.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Tradies<\/a> in Dickson as a caf\u00e9 and bar assistant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love my job because I am doing something useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am really great at looking after the customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s important to give people with Down syndrome a chance because they can feel useful in society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People with Down syndrome are great workers because we are loyal, punctual, reliable and hard working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having a job makes me feel happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damien Flanagan works in the cafe at The Tradies Community Club and shares his employment success story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"76","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[11,12,10,8,5,15,9,6,4,7],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employment","tag-actdsa","tag-canberra","tag-disability","tag-down-syndrome","tag-employment","tag-inclusion","tag-intellectual-disability","tag-job","tag-right-to-work","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}