{"id":11790,"date":"2026-10-20T17:31:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egmond-circle.eu\/veranstaltung\/four-fingers-and-thirteen-toes-an-extraordinary-journey-through-life-en\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:30:41","slug":"four-fingers-and-thirteen-toes-an-extraordinary-journey-through-life-en","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/egmond-circle.eu\/en\/veranstaltung\/four-fingers-and-thirteen-toes-an-extraordinary-journey-through-life-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Fingers and Thirteen Toes \u2013 An Extraordinary Journey Through Life (EN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does one build a self-determined life with a severe thalidomide-related injury? This is the story told in the auto\u00adbi\u00adog\u00adra\u00adphy \u201cFour Fingers and Thir\u00adteen Toes\u201d by Rosaleen (Rosie) Moriarty-Simmonds OBE, from which Giselle Cole will read at the \u201cEgmond Circle\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rosie Moriarty-Simmonds was born in Great Britain in 1960 with severe malfor\u00adma\u00adtions of the arms and legs, after her mother had taken the drug thalido\u00admide during preg\u00adnancy. The book\u2019s unusual title \u2013 \u201cFour Fingers and Thir\u00adteen Toes\u201d \u2013 refers to her phys\u00adi\u00adcal condition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In her auto\u00adbi\u00adog\u00adra\u00adphy, published in 2007, Rosie writes about her child\u00adhood, long hospi\u00adtal stays, and her path to a self-determined life. She tells of her educa\u00adtion, her stud\u00adies in psychol\u00adogy, her profes\u00adsional career, and her commit\u00adment to the rights of people with disabil\u00adi\u00adties. Her family and her artis\u00adtic work as a mouth painter also play an impor\u00adtant&nbsp;role.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The book weaves together personal memo\u00adries with the history of the thalido\u00admide scan\u00addal and the strug\u00adgle for recog\u00adni\u00adtion, equal\u00adity, and compensation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A read\u00ading by Giselle Cole from the book by Rosaleen (Rosie) Moriarty-Simmonds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[142,125],"programmtag":[149,221],"tribe_events_cat":[119],"class_list":["post-11790","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tag-reading","tag-supporting-activities","tribe_events_cat-activities","cat_activities","tribe_events_cat-aktion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egmond-circle.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egmond-circle.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egmond-circle.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egmond-circle.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egmond-circle.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12764,"href":"https:\/\/egmond-circle.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11790\/revisions\/12764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egmond-circle.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egmond-circle.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11790"},{"taxonomy":"programmtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egmond-circle.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programmtag?post=11790"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egmond-circle.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=11790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}