{"id":1361,"date":"2013-07-22T06:30:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T13:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2013-04-23T14:01:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T21:01:52","slug":"a-modern-home-scholar-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/22\/a-modern-home-scholar-10\/","title":{"rendered":"A Modern Famous Home Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunaura Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebestcolleges.org\/the-worlds-15-most-extraordinary-homeschoolers\/taylor\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-816\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"taylor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebestcolleges.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/taylor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sunaura Taylor is an artist, writer and activist for animals and the disabled. She taught herself to paint while being\u00a0unschooled\u00a0by her artist mother and musician father in Athens, GA. Taylor has\u00a0arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, a rare congenital joint disorder that prevents her from using her legs or arms,\u00a0and believes\u00a0the disease was caused by the toxic effect of contaminated waste illegally dumped by the U.S. Military near her birthplace in Tucson,\u00a0Arizona. Using her mouth, Taylor paints\u00a0extraordinarily vivid and moving portraits\u00a0of her subjects, primarily people with disabilities and animals, intending to raise philosophical and political issues surrounding disability\/normalcy, personal identity and animal ethics. She appears in the film\u00a0<em>Examined Life<\/em>, by her sister Astra Taylor (see earlier blog), discussing disability issues with the well known American philosopher\u00a0Judith Butler. Taylor has won several awards for her work, including the Joan Mitchell Foundation award in 2008, and was featured on NPR\u2019s All Things Considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sunaura Taylor Sunaura Taylor is an artist, writer and activist for animals and the disabled. She taught herself to paint while being\u00a0unschooled\u00a0by her artist mother and musician father in Athens, GA. Taylor has\u00a0arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, a rare congenital joint disorder that prevents her from using her legs or arms,\u00a0and believes\u00a0the disease was caused by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}