{"id":1938,"date":"2014-10-20T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2014-10-20T12:18:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:18:16","slug":"16-year-old-erica-wilson-overcomes-loss-of-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2014\/10\/20\/16-year-old-erica-wilson-overcomes-loss-of-legs\/","title":{"rendered":"16-year-old Erica Wilson overcomes loss of usage in legs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1939\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/10\/gatoradeerica.jpg\" alt=\"gatoradeerica\" width=\"348\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/10\/gatoradeerica.jpg 348w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/10\/gatoradeerica-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sixteen-year-old Erica Wilson was an aspiring dancer, now the teenager is dealing with the loss of both of her legs due to a neurological disorder called transverse myelitis.<\/p>\n<p>What started as a leg cramp turned into Erica never being able to walk again.<\/p>\n<p>Now Wilson has turned to the sport of wheelchair basketball. A member of Birmingham, Alabama\u2019s Lakeshore Lakers, Erica has set her signs on new dreams. With new found confidence Erica has began to excel at the active sport.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_7sUcrVHv40\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis sport has enhanced me in general. It\u2019s expanded my horizons as far as there\u2019s more options for college not just to go there for academics, but you can go there and play a sport. I think that it definitely made me more social as well. Not only with teammates, but the communication skills I learn on the basketball team I carry over to school and everything else. It\u2019s definitely improved me as an overall person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Erica has now turned her signs to playing at the college level and then even globally. Erica says one day maybe she could even coach children of the sport and says &#8220;I don&#8217;t think I would change anything&#8221; about her current condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen-year-old Erica Wilson was an aspiring dancer, now the teenager is dealing with the loss of both of her legs due to a neurological disorder called transverse myelitis. What started as a leg cramp turned into Erica never being able to walk again. Now Wilson has turned to the sport of wheelchair basketball. A member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[130,105],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-1938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-erica-wilson","9":"tag-front"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}