{"id":279,"date":"2026-09-13T15:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fantatv.com\/series\/the-girl-who-flew-without-arms\/chapter-4-the-crowd-stood-up\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T15:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:25:58","slug":"chapter-4-the-crowd-stood-up","status":"publish","type":"sr_chapter","link":"http:\/\/fantatv.com\/?sr_chapter=chapter-4-the-crowd-stood-up","title":{"rendered":"CHAPTER 4. THE CROWD STOOD UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.igallery.blog\/assets\/d6d71f71abed14e4e47e1dce52190abb\/2026\/0913\/5af6a8a5-9d01-42ef-a6d8-ccc401db9146-Screenshot_12.png\" style=\"max-width: 100{4ffdf0d3d7c1df7718bc4ac5461c4394f3feadae72d4f226268bca6495f999d2};height: auto\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Emma remained still for half a second.<\/p>\n<p>Then she raised her shoulders and smiled.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people were standing.<\/p>\n<p>Phones filled the air.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel was crying.<\/p>\n<p>Emma turned toward her coach.<\/p>\n<p>Did I get it?<\/p>\n<p>Rachel laughed.<\/p>\n<p>You got it.<\/p>\n<p>Emma looked toward the scoreboard.<\/p>\n<p>The judges were still calculating.<\/p>\n<p>But the crowd did not care about the number.<\/p>\n<p>They had just watched a gymnast perform a skill most people in the arena had never imagined seeing.<\/p>\n<p>Emma slowly walked away from the landing area.<\/p>\n<p>A little girl in the front row stared at her.<\/p>\n<p>Emma noticed.<\/p>\n<p>The child smiled.<\/p>\n<p>Emma smiled back.<\/p>\n<p>That moment mattered more to her than the applause.<\/p>\n<p>Because Emma remembered being that child.<\/p>\n<p>Watching other athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Wondering if there was a place for someone built differently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma remained still for half a second. Then she raised her shoulders and smiled. Thousands of people were standing. Phones filled the air. Rachel was crying. Emma turned toward her coach. Did I get it? Rachel laughed. You got it. Emma looked toward the scoreboard. The judges were still calculating. But the crowd did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-279","sr_chapter","type-sr_chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fantatv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sr_chapter\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fantatv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sr_chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fantatv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/sr_chapter"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fantatv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fantatv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sr_chapter\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fantatv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}