{"id":8669,"date":"2013-05-05T11:44:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T11:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=8669"},"modified":"2013-05-05T11:44:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T11:44:56","slug":"an-interview-with-john-mac-donald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=8669","title":{"rendered":"An Interview With John Mac Donald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Mac Donald has never walked,he has spent all 52 years of his life in a wheel chair.<\/p>\n<p>The term confined to a wheelchair is not a term I would use for this man who has\u00a0traveled the world,holds down a responsible job,an active advocate for people with disabilities and who\u00a0possesses a keen\u00a0sense of\u00a0humor.<\/p>\n<p>John has very limited use of his hands yet manages to overcome\u00a0obstacles like using keyboards and smartphones by skilfully using a drumstick clenched in his mouth.<\/p>\n<p>In this interview with Ger Leddin for LIFELINE John shares his philosophy, courage and talks about his life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2496\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/johnmacdonald.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2496','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/johnmacdonald.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/johnmacdonald.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=8669-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/johnmacdonald.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"johnmacdonald.mp3\">Download<\/a> (24.1MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mac Donald has never walked,he has spent all 52 years of his life in a wheel chair. The term confined to a wheelchair is not a term I would use for this man who has\u00a0traveled the world,holds down a responsible job,an active advocate for people with disabilities and who\u00a0possesses a keen\u00a0sense of\u00a0humor. John has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2497\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/johnmacdonald.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2497','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/johnmacdonald.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/johnmacdonald.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=8669-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/johnmacdonald.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"johnmacdonald.mp3\">Download<\/a> (24.1MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifeline-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}