{"id":24127,"date":"2017-09-15T20:46:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T19:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=24127"},"modified":"2017-09-15T20:46:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T19:46:17","slug":"teen-quadruple-amputee-derby-aims-inspire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/15\/teen-quadruple-amputee-derby-aims-inspire\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Quadruple Amputee From Derby Aims To Inspire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Isabelle Weall, who lost her arms and legs to meningitis at the age of seven, has launched a YouTube channel to help inspire others in similar situations.<\/h2>\n<p>The 14-year-old wears leg blades and became a national trampolining champion last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was seven I got meningitis, and I got quite ill and had to have arms and legs amputated,\u201d said Isabelle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I can show people what I can do, it shows them that you can still do things and I can still do things and that I just get on with my life normally rather than being considered disabled,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>On her YouTube channel, which currently has over 500 subscribers, Isabelle discusses trampolining, fashion and makeup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I can be something for someone to look up to then that\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isabelle Weall, who lost her arms and legs to meningitis at the age of seven, has launched a YouTube channel to help inspire others in similar situations. The 14-year-old wears leg blades and became a national trampolining champion last year. \u201cWhen I was seven I got meningitis, and I got quite ill and had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":24128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}