{"id":1003,"date":"2011-06-02T09:50:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T13:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2011-06-02T09:50:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T13:50:46","slug":"the-blind-using-a-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"The Blind Using a Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Hong has created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/dennis_hong_making_a_car_for_blind_drivers.html\">car that blind people can drive<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Some say he gave them hope. Decades ago, the Blind couldn&#8217;t download digital books from a computer. Fortunately for our members, this is no longer\u00a0a hope but a reality. With the right technology and training, the\u00a0Blind can independently retrieve talking books literally\u00a0with their fingertips. If you are Blind and haven&#8217;t already signed up for BARD, the Braille Audio Reading Download service from Talking Books\u00a0Plus, vist the <a href=\"https:\/\/nlsbard.loc.gov\/RI1A\/ApplicationInstructions.html\">BARD <\/a>website to find out how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Hong has created a car that blind people can drive.\u00a0\u00a0Some say he gave them hope. Decades ago, the Blind couldn&#8217;t download digital books from a computer. Fortunately for our members, this is no longer\u00a0a hope but a reality. With the right technology and training, the\u00a0Blind can independently retrieve talking books literally\u00a0with their fingertips. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dbooks","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}