{"id":10999,"date":"2018-08-10T05:25:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T05:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=10999"},"modified":"2018-08-10T05:25:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T05:25:26","slug":"bionic-woman-helps-others-thrive-after-paralysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=10999","title":{"rendered":"Bionic woman helps others thrive after paralysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Basalt, Colorado (CNN)<\/cite>Amanda Boxtel was 24 years old when she lay in a hospital bed, unable to move her legs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">A doctor came in to tell her she would never walk again &#8212; that her skiing accident had shattered four vertebrae and she was paralyzed from the waist down. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;I was an athlete. I was a dancer; an aerobics dancer with big hair in the &#8217;80s,&#8221; said Boxtel, now 50. &#8220;I felt invincible. And that all changed in a split second.&#8221; <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basalt, Colorado (CNN)Amanda Boxtel was 24 years old when she lay in a hospital bed, unable to move her legs.A doctor came in to tell her she would never walk again &#8212; that her skiing accident had shattered four vertebrae and she was paralyzed from the waist down. &#8220;I was an athlete. I was a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}