{"id":31245,"date":"2009-02-24T22:22:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T03:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=31245"},"modified":"2009-02-24T22:56:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T03:56:20","slug":"mermaid-dream-comes-true-thanks-to-weta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/02\/24\/31245-mermaid-dream-comes-true-thanks-to-weta\/","title":{"rendered":"Mermaid dream comes true thanks to Weta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Nadya Vessey lost her legs as a child but now she swims like a mermaid. Ms Vessey&#8217;s mermaid tail was created by Wellington-based film industry wizards Weta Workshop after the Auckland woman wrote to them two years ago asking if they could make her a prosthetic tail. She was astounded when they agreed. She lost both legs below the knee from a medical condition when she was a child and told Close Up last night her long-held dream had come true. &#8220;A prosthetic is a prosthetic, and your body has to be comfortable with it and you have to mentally make it part of yourself,&#8221; she said. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/4858855a11.html?source=email\">Mermaid dream comes true thanks to Weta<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nadya Vessey lost her legs as a child but now she swims like a mermaid. Ms Vessey&#8217;s mermaid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[104],"tags":[702],"class_list":["post-31245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-weta-workshop","tag-nadya-vessey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-87X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}