{"id":13583,"date":"2025-01-14T13:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T18:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=13583"},"modified":"2025-01-14T14:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T19:21:37","slug":"double-amputee-tells-about-her-star-athlete-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/double-amputee-tells-about-her-star-athlete-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic athlete talks about being a double amputee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Aimee Mullins gives a <a href=\"vhttps:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/aimee_mullins_my_12_pairs_of_legs?autoplay=true\">Ted talk<\/a> about the 12 pairs of creatively crafted prosthetic legs she had custom made to replace the lower legs she lost when she became a double amputee at age 1. Aimee tells how she has fun with her leg collection, how they enhance her humanity &#8230;. and what it was like to compete as a disabled track star first at the collegiate level and later as an Olympic athlete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also tells an amazing story in the first clip at about the 7 minute mark when a lady Aimee&#8217;s friendly with \u2013 who is not disabled \u2013 complains with great sincerity at a party about how jealous she is of Aimee&#8217;s amazing legs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aimee Mullins gives a Ted talk about the 12 pairs of creatively crafted prosthetic legs she had custom made to replace the lower legs she lost when she became a double amputee at age 1. Aimee tells how she has fun with her leg collection, how they enhance her humanity &#8230;. and what it was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/double-amputee-tells-about-her-star-athlete-career\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Olympic athlete talks about being a double amputee&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5526,"featured_media":13585,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13583"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13593,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583\/revisions\/13593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}