{"id":15849,"date":"2002-06-20T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-20T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/20\/high-school-senior-masha-malikina-was-paralyzed\/"},"modified":"2002-06-20T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-20T15:52:00","slug":"high-school-senior-masha-malikina-was-paralyzed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/20\/high-school-senior-masha-malikina-was-paralyzed\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High school senior Masha Malikina was paralyzed from the waist down three years ago in a car accident.  Her goal was to be able to to walk across the stage at her graduation.  Amazingly, she recovered enough to be able to walk with the aid of a walker.  However, her principal dashed her hopes, claiming that he was unwilling to risk the liabilities associated with her possibly injuring herself.  Thankfully, a local radio station stepped in and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2002\/US\/06\/19\/masha.graduates\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">staged a ceremony just for Masha<\/a>, where she was able to walk across the stage and accept her diploma in front of a cheering audience.  And as for that prinicipal, what a shyster.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-77983067?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High school senior Masha Malikina was paralyzed from the waist down three years ago in a car accident. Her goal was to be able to to walk across the stage at her graduation. Amazingly, she recovered enough to be able to walk with the aid of a walker. However, her principal dashed her hopes, claiming &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/20\/high-school-senior-masha-malikina-was-paralyzed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}