{"id":2231,"date":"2009-03-02T19:14:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T19:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2009-03-02T19:14:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T19:14:18","slug":"lifes_green_fil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2231","title":{"rendered":"Life’s Green Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wish I had heard of Christopher Nolan<\/a>, the Irish writer and poet, before reading about his recent death today. Nolan was born with severe cerebral palsy; he could not speak and he had full control only over his head and eyes. He learned to type using a stick attached to his head. In 1987, at the age of 22, he won the Whitbread Award for his autobiography Under the Eye of the Clock. “The Economist<\/i>‘s obituary<\/a> for Nolan provides a few short excerpts of his work (although the article’s subtitle referring to him as the “voice of the crippled” made me grit my teeth a little”).<\/p>\n

He died at age 43 after choking on some food. A tragic death, but it was preceded by a life rich with accomplishment.<\/p>\n

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I wish I had heard of Christopher Nolan, the Irish writer and poet, before reading about his recent death today. Nolan was born with severe cerebral palsy; he could not speak and he had full control only over his head and eyes. He learned to type using a stick attached to his head. In 1987, […]<\/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-2231","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-zZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","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=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}