{"id":3340,"date":"2018-10-20T17:24:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T17:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/The-Incredible-Bessie-Blount"},"modified":"2018-10-20T17:24:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T17:24:17","slug":"the-incredible-bessie-blount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/10\/20\/the-incredible-bessie-blount\/","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Bessie Blount"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p><strong>Originally shared by Adafruit Industries<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Incredible Bessie Blount<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adafruit.com\/2018\/10\/20\/the-incredible-bessie-blount\/\">https:\/\/blog.adafruit.com\/2018\/10\/20\/the-incredible-bessie-blount\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>via Smithsonian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In 1952, Bessie Blount boarded a plane from New York to France to give away her life\u2019s work. The 38-year-old inventor planned to hand over to the French military, free of charge, an extraordinary technology that would change lives for disabled veterans of the Second World War: an automatic feeding device. To use it, a person only needed to bite down on a switch, which would deliver a mouthful of food through a spoon-shaped tube.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adafruit.com\/2018\/10\/20\/the-incredible-bessie-blount\/\">https:\/\/blog.adafruit.com\/2018\/10\/20\/the-incredible-bessie-blount\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/blog.adafruit.com\/2018\/10\/20\/the-incredible-bessie-blount\/<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        The Incredible Bessie Blount<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/10\/20\/the-incredible-bessie-blount\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}