{"id":665,"date":"2016-06-09T18:05:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T18:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/?p=665"},"modified":"2016-06-13T18:05:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T18:05:54","slug":"polio-victim-showcase-wheelchair-dancing-blossom-arts-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"Polio Victim to Showcase Wheelchair Dancing at Blossom Arts Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-667 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tambourine-970343_1920-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"tambourine-970343_1920\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tambourine-970343_1920-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tambourine-970343_1920-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tambourine-970343_1920-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tambourine-970343_1920-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tambourine-970343_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Sophi Lin Hsiu Hsia, a Taiwanese polio patient and wheelchair dancing champion, is just one of the performer\u2019s during the month-long Blossom Arts Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As a national coach and judge of wheelchair dancing under the Chinese Taipei Sports Federation for the Disabled, Lin, 49, has won numerous dancing competitions across the world and wants to raise awareness that, despite her disability, she can still perform. \u201cDancing with an imperfect body and making wheelchair dancing a miracle of life enables me to encourage others to reconsider their own meaning in life, appreciate what they have, and not focus on what they don\u2019t have,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>For the full article, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/nation\/2016\/06\/09\/disabled-dancer-defies-the-odds-polio-victim-to-showcase-wheelchair-dancing-at-blossom-arts-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\">visit TheStar.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophi Lin Hsiu Hsia, a Taiwanese polio patient and wheelchair dancing champion, is just one of the performer\u2019s during the month-long Blossom Arts Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 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