{"id":9884,"date":"2013-10-01T23:09:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T07:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=9884"},"modified":"2013-10-02T18:25:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T02:25:48","slug":"beautiful-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/beautiful-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kiera-Roche-floral-leg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9885\" alt=\"Kiera Roche - floral leg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kiera-Roche-floral-leg.jpg?resize=444%2C666\" width=\"444\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kiera-Roche-floral-leg.jpg?w=444&amp;ssl=1 444w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kiera-Roche-floral-leg.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before today, I have felt offended by images of prosthetic limbs that seemed to fetishize amputees.<\/p>\n<p>Even though it&#8217;s none of my business what people fetishize, I will always remember the doctor who told Max to consider having his leg amputated. Max was visibly upset, but somewhat resigned. Everything was as bad as it could be for him, so why not this new development, too. As it turned out, his surgeon disagreed. Further surgery and physical therapy could save the leg. But pictures of prosthetic legs continued to fill me with anger and despair.<\/p>\n<p>Losing a leg seemed indescribably horrible and unfair. But it happens. And clearly there are plenty of people who cope with this loss and don&#8217;t let it ruin their lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kiera Roche<\/strong> is a strong-willed amputee who has challenged herself with cycling and hiking. She has struggled with ideas of &#8216;normal&#8217; and looking different. She loves her beautiful new floral leg, and I love it too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kiera-and-Anna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9888\" alt=\"Kiera and Anna\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kiera-and-Anna.jpg?resize=462%2C660\" width=\"462\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kiera-and-Anna.jpg?w=462&amp;ssl=1 462w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kiera-and-Anna.jpg?resize=210%2C300&amp;ssl=1 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Keira and her beautiful leg have changed my thinking about amputees. I am grateful to have come across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thealternativelimbproject.com\/#\/floral-leg\/4569111149\" target=\"_blank\">The Alternative Limb Project<\/a>. I feel enlightened on a subject where my mind was once closed.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p><em>photos (c) the alternative limb project<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Before today, I have felt offended by images of prosthetic limbs that seemed to fetishize amputees. Even though it&#8217;s none of my business what people fetishize, I will always remember the doctor who told Max to consider having his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/beautiful-leg\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,2,376],"tags":[1104,856,957],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-2zq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}