{"id":611,"date":"2016-05-04T16:06:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T16:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/?p=611"},"modified":"2016-05-17T16:38:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T16:38:17","slug":"woman-overcame-polio-writes-first-book-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"Woman Who Overcame Polio Writes First Book at 93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-612 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/writing-1209121_1920-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"writing-1209121_1920\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/writing-1209121_1920-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/writing-1209121_1920-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/writing-1209121_1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/writing-1209121_1920-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/writing-1209121_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Just two days after celebrating her 93rd birthday, Scotland resident Sheila Ferres has published her first book. Called \u201cLife of Giving,\u201d the book chronicles Ferres\u2019 life and includes her battle with polio, which she contracted when she was 30 years old. Today Ferres resides in Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland and has devoted her life to helping others, despite being handicapped from polio. Since 2000 she\u2019s raised \u00a3200,000 for her charity, Chart, and has founded a dementia care center in memory of her late sister. All proceeds of her book will go to her charity. In an interview she said, \u201cAlthough I have been very handicapped from the age of 30, I have accepted it and used all my knowledge [of what it\u2019s like] to benefit everybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the full article,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/homenews\/14472631.Woman_who_overcame_polio_writes_first_book_at_93\/\" target=\"_blank\">visit HeraldScotland.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just two days after celebrating her 93rd birthday, Scotland resident Sheila Ferres has published her first book. Called \u201cLife of Giving,\u201d the book chronicles Ferres\u2019 life and includes her battle with polio, which she contracted when she was 30 years old. Today Ferres resides in Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland and has devoted her life to helping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Woman Who Overcame Polio Writes First Book at 93<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/?p=611\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Woman Who Overcame Polio Writes First Book at 93\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Just two days after celebrating her 93rd birthday, Scotland resident Sheila Ferres has published her first book. 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