{"id":336,"date":"2024-05-15T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2024-05-19T18:49:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T01:49:02","slug":"helen-keller-june-27-1880-june-1-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"Helen Keller\u00a0(June 27, 1880\u00a0\u2013 June 1, 1968)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Helen Adams Keller<\/strong>\u00a0(June 27, 1880\u00a0\u2013 June 1, 1968) was an American author,\u00a0disability rights\u00a0advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West\u00a0Tuscumbia, Alabama, she\u00a0lost her sight\u00a0and\u00a0her hearing\u00a0after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. She then communicated primarily using\u00a0home signs\u00a0until the age of seven, when she met her first teacher and life-long companion\u00a0Anne Sullivan. Sullivan taught Keller language, including reading and writing. After an education at both specialist and mainstream schools, Keller attended\u00a0Radcliffe College\u00a0of\u00a0Harvard University\u00a0and became the first\u00a0deafblind\u00a0person in the United States to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Adams Keller\u00a0(June 27, 1880\u00a0\u2013 June 1, 1968) was an American author,\u00a0disability rights\u00a0advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West\u00a0Tuscumbia, Alabama, she\u00a0lost her sight\u00a0and\u00a0her hearing\u00a0after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. She then communicated primarily using\u00a0home signs\u00a0until the age of seven, when she met her first teacher and life-long companion\u00a0Anne Sullivan&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}