{"id":2201,"date":"2016-10-08T17:50:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T22:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2016-10-08T17:49:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T22:49:46","slug":"ray-wright-wood-working-for-the-blind-enchanted-hills-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?p=2201","title":{"rendered":"Ray Wright: Wood Working for the Blind Enchanted Hills Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3928\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2201-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/WW4B_Ray_Wright_Interview.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/WW4B_Ray_Wright_Interview.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/WW4B_Ray_Wright_Interview.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p>Ray Wright teaches wood working and was once a student learning about wood working as an elective class. Ray had no idea that one day he would be teaching others the art of wood working. His class is an opportunity for students to work with tools and create projects that they probably did not expect that they could do as a person with visual impairment. Ray has become a master of the Lathe and from the tiniest projects to Ice Cream Cones Ray the only limits he puts on his projects is his imagination.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ray-Wright-with-Ice-Cream-Cone-Project-e1475958698305.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nCheck out Ray&#8217;s story and check out the Wood Working for blind web site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ww4b.org\">www.ww4b.org<\/a><br \/>\nCheck out more workshops on the LightHouse<a href=\"http:\/\/lighthouse-sf.org\"> for the Blind and Visually Impaired web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow us on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/blindabilities\">@BlindAbilities.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get the <a href=\"https:\/\/appsto.re\/us\/demUab.i\">Free BlindAbilities App<\/a> on the App Store.<\/p>\n<p>[gravityform id=&#8221;2&#8243; title=&#8221;true&#8221; description=&#8221;true&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3930\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2201-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/WW4B_Ray_Wright_Interview.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/WW4B_Ray_Wright_Interview.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/WW4B_Ray_Wright_Interview.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p>http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/WW4B_Ray_Wright_Interview.mp3Ray Wright teaches wood working and was once a student learning about wood working as an elective class. Ray had no idea that one day he would be teaching others the art of wood working. His class is an opportunity for students to work with tools and create projects that they probably did not expect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bapresents"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Blind-Abilities-Logo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rcRg-zv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2260,"url":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?p=2260","url_meta":{"origin":2201,"position":0},"title":"Wood Working for the Blind: Meet Dennis Walker","author":"Blind Abilities Team","date":"November 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Wood Working is something that people have low expectations for the blind and probably think that it is too dangerous for their son\/daughter or any person with limited or no vision to get involved with as a hobby or profession. 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