{"id":333,"date":"2019-01-31T07:55:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T07:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp\/?p=333"},"modified":"2019-01-31T07:55:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T07:55:33","slug":"if-i-couldnt-walk-the-paralympics-are-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisajohnsonfitness.com\/if-i-couldnt-walk-the-paralympics-are-here\/","title":{"rendered":"If I Couldn\u2019t Walk (The Paralympics Are Here)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n
When I was a kid, I read the book Pollyanna<\/em> by Eleanor Porter. The main character, a young girl, has a very sunny outlook on life, which she shares with everyone else in her small town. But her disposition is tested when she gets hit by a car and loses the use of her legs, unable to find anything positive in the situation. Buoyed by the townspeople she helped, Pollyanna is able to turn her initial anger and bitterness around, finding a way to fight through it and make her way in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The story has always stayed with me, but at the time when I first read the book, my thought was, \u201cI\u2019d become a wheelchair racer.\u201d That was the only sport I knew of where paraplegics could participate; now I know there are a lot<\/em> more \u2026 a whole Olympiad\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n