{"id":1161,"date":"2006-03-24T20:20:08","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T20:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2006-03-24T20:20:08","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T20:20:08","slug":"kindred_spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"Kindred Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hero Joy Nightingale is a young woman living in the UK who has “locked-in” syndrome, a congenital disability that makes it nearly impossible for her to speak or move.  Hero is also a writer of immense talent<\/A>.  Her essays are full of dry humor and poignant observations of her own life and its daily struggles.  She has a keen sense of how others perceive her and she is blunt in expressing her own fears and frustrations.  She used to edit a webzine entitled From the Window<\/A>, which included guest essays from Kofi Annan<\/A> and Stephen Hawking<\/A>.  She made mention of plans to attend Oxford in 2003<\/A>, but she seems to have fallen off the Web since then.  If anyone knows what happened to her, I’d love to know. <\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hero Joy Nightingale is a young woman living in the UK who has “locked-in” syndrome, a congenital disability that makes it nearly impossible for her to speak or move.  Hero is also a writer of immense talent.  Her essays are full of dry humor and poignant observations of her own life and its daily struggles.  […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-iJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}