{"id":440992,"date":"2026-10-29T00:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/440992\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T00:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:14:08","slug":"how-groundbreaking-tech-helped-a-paralyzed-veteran-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/440992\/","title":{"rendered":"How groundbreaking tech helped a paralyzed veteran walk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-8fdf64be=\"\">Michael Weed collapsed without warning two years after walking out of a room. The sudden fall left him unable to move his arms or legs, prompting emergency surgery at Orlando Health for a severe spinal cord injury.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors initially warned Weed that he might never walk again. Five weeks into intensive physical therapy, he walked out of the facility on his own feet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I consider it a miracle. I really do. I&#8217;m a man of faith, and I had a lot of help,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0October 28, 2026 7:21pm EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Weed collapsed without warning two years after walking out of a room. The sudden fall left him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-440992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}