{"id":2608,"date":"2021-11-29T20:37:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T01:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2021-11-29T20:37:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T01:37:31","slug":"tommy-and-helen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2608","title":{"rendered":"Tommy and Helen"},"content":{"rendered":"
For a deaf, dumb and blind boy to master a pinball game<\/div>\n
is nowhere near the effort it took for a young girl<\/div>\n
in the same circumstances to learn language from scratch.<\/div>\n
Not only did she become a prolific author, an activist<\/div>\n
and a disability rights advocate (*the three A’s),<\/div>\n
but also earned a degree from Radcliffe College as well.<\/div>\n
But her mastery of her surroundings did not stop there.<\/div>\n
She learned to hit a ninety-mile-an-hour fastball,<\/div>\n
simply through a sense\u00a0of air distribution, fast hands,<\/div>\n
and the smell of horsehide. Not powerful, but consistent.<\/div>\n
And her ability to drive\u00a0a small car, slowly, based on the feel<\/div>\n
of the wheels on the road, was considered legendary.<\/div>\n
No one was hurt in the learning, but there were close calls.<\/div>\n
She travelled to thirty-five countries in ten years’ time,<\/div>\n
and swam the English Channel under cover of darkness.<\/div>\n
As a socialist, she invented a robot she named Eugene Debs.<\/div>\n
She is now depicted on the Alabama state quarter.<\/div>\n
She invented bitcoin based solely on astral projection.<\/div>\n
But in her vain attempts at pinball, she always tilted the machine.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a deaf, dumb and blind boy to master a pinball game is nowhere near the effort it took for a young girl in the same circumstances to learn language from scratch. Not only did she become a prolific author, an activist and a disability rights advocate (*the three A’s), but also earned a degree […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}