{"id":109988,"date":"2019-04-23T15:53:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T14:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=109988"},"modified":"2019-04-23T15:54:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T14:54:06","slug":"10-year-old-girl-born-without-hands-wins-handwriting-competition-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=109988","title":{"rendered":"10-year-old girl born without hands wins handwriting competition | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"
A 10-year-old girl who was born without hands has won a handwriting competition in the US.<\/p>\n

Sara Hinesley, a pupil at St. John’s Regional Catholic School in Frederick, Maryland, won the Nicholas Maxim award in the Zaner-Bloser national handwriting contest.<\/p>\n

The award is for pupils with special needs, and judges take into account “cognitive, intellectual, physical, and\/or developmental disability”.<\/p>\n

Sara arrived in the US four years ago, from her native China, after being adopted by the Hinesley family.<\/p>\n

Although she spoke no English, she picked it up from her older sister Veronica.<\/p>\n

Her sister also made her an artificial hand in her science class so the pair could play together.<\/p>\n

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Sara writes by holding a pen or pencil between her arms, and likens writing in a cursive, joined-up style – for which she won the award – to art.<\/p>\n

She told WJZ: “The things I can’t do, I try to figure out the ways I can do it and try my best to make it work.<\/p>\n

“I just try my hardest and put my mind to it and this is what happens.”<\/p>\n

Her mother Cathryn Hinesley told ABC: “Sara is very motivated and a disciplined student. She excels really at about anything she tries.”<\/p>\n

As well as art, and watching TV, Sara likes rock climbing with her sister.<\/p>\n

She told WJZ: “Anytime I fail, I just keep doing it with Veronica cheering me on – I can always get to the top.”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 10-year-old girl who was born without hands has won a handwriting competition in the US. Sara Hinesley, a pupil at St. John’s Regional Catholic School in Frederick, Maryland, won the Nicholas Maxim award in the Zaner-Bloser national handwriting contest. The award is for pupils with special needs, and judges take into account “cognitive, intellectual, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[9247],"class_list":["post-109988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-world-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}