{"id":36281,"date":"2025-09-25T02:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/36281\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T02:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:36:07","slug":"nj-man-publishes-alphabet-book-after-overcoming-brain-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/36281\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ man publishes alphabet book after overcoming brain injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WPVI logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/origin-wpvi.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, September 25, 2025 2:27AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"NJ man publishes alphabet book after overcoming brain injury\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A South Jersey man is proving that nothing can erase passion, following a traumatic brain injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">For Fred Davis, art is life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">His latest piece of work-a children&#8217;s alphabet book that he wrote and illustrated&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">His talents on the pages eclipse the traumatic brain injury he suffered years earlier from a blood-clotting disorder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">His sister Leann McCafferty says he spent two weeks in a coma, and when he woke up, they feared he&#8217;d never draw again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fred, who graduated from the University of the Arts in 2008, remained determined to continue drawing the world around him.<\/p>\n<p>His family says that while he now struggles with speech, he&#8217;s hoping this new book will help children and others like him with their ability to enunciate words.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">A new chapter turning pain to purpose<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, September 25, 2025 2:27AM A South Jersey man is proving that nothing can erase passion, following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[412,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-36281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}