{"id":2219,"date":"2012-09-09T20:01:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T00:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:10:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:10:20","slug":"the-powers-in-you-says-legless-maker-of-cheetah-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/the-powers-in-you-says-legless-maker-of-cheetah-legs\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The power&#8217;s in you&#8221; says legless maker of Cheetah Legs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Screen-shot-2012-09-09-at-7.54.46-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Screen-shot-2012-09-09-at-7.54.46-PM-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"Aimee Mullins with 12 pairs of legs she uses\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-09-09 at 7.54.46 PM\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2220\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Screen-shot-2012-09-09-at-7.54.46-PM-300x148.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Screen-shot-2012-09-09-at-7.54.46-PM.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Watch the TED Talk with me: Aimee Mullins, the designer of Cheetah running legs, herself a legless woman, talks about combining form, function and value \u2013\u00a0and of the power of believing and unifying. Aimee&#8217;s an athlete, an activist, a woman&#8217;s advocate, a sports record-breaker and a completely awesome lady.<\/p>\n<p>Amy quotes Shakespeare, &#8220;When you prick me, do I not bleed; and when you tickle me, do I not laugh?&#8221; and adds, &#8220;It is the humanity within us that makes us beautiful \u2026 Whimsy matters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/forestgardenestate.weebly.com\/ians-background.html\">Ian Rowcliffe<\/a> for sharing this bit of inspiration on a day I needed a bit of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the TED Talk with me: Aimee Mullins, the designer of Cheetah running legs, herself a legless woman, talks about combining form, function and value \u2013\u00a0and of the power of believing and unifying. Aimee&#8217;s an athlete, an activist, a woman&#8217;s advocate, a sports record-breaker and a completely awesome lady. Amy quotes Shakespeare, &#8220;When you prick &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/the-powers-in-you-says-legless-maker-of-cheetah-legs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;The power&#8217;s in you&#8221; says legless maker of Cheetah Legs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,31,664,16],"tags":[38,758,759,764,763,760,761,762],"class_list":["post-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-best-stuff","category-happiness","category-transformation","tag-beauty","tag-cheetah-legs","tag-disabled","tag-humanity","tag-poetry","tag-supermen","tag-superwoman","tag-ted"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4394,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions\/4394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}