{"id":1029,"date":"2018-08-29T09:42:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T14:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journey.jayctheriot.com\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2018-08-29T09:42:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T14:42:14","slug":"amazon-alexa-services-as-disability-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Alexa Services as Disability Aids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>#KennedysDisease #SBMA #Success #ExtremeSpasticity, #AcceptanceWithoutSurrender<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last four days has seen me quite troubled and humbled.\u00a0 Until yesterday, I was testing four Amazon Echo Dots as disability assistants.\u00a0 Yesterday, I was bathing and I realized a bit of panic while in the Tub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had transferred the Echo Dot from my bedroom to the bathroom to listen to the news.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t connect my cell phone and was thus, in a tub of water, barely abled and cut off from the world.\u00a0 If I had an issue in the tub&#8230; Well, I think you can see the bit of panic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have just ordered two additional Echo Dots.\u00a0 They will be placed in inconspicuous location in each of our bathrooms.\u00a0 I even ordered them white so they will blend in with their surroundings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have someone with mobility issues, I can&#8217;t recommend this device strongly enough.\u00a0 They must be paired with a cell phone to make calls, but they work beautifully.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can play music, either from an online service or a home media server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among functions I use to help me are: listening to news with a command, setting reminders or alarms, intercom, music throughout the house, bible verse of the day, and on and on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a small investment, the effect on the quality of my life as been great. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have trouble in the tub this time.\u00a0 But, I am insuring that I will never be cut off from help again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for reading,\u00a0 in Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jay C. \u201cJazzy_J\u201d Theriot<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jay C. Theriot can usually be found as \u201cJazzy_J\u201d on the IRC Channel #ExtremeSpasticity on Freenode.net \u2013&gt; see: <a href=\"irc:\/\/irc.freenode.net\/ExtremeSpasticity\">irc:\/\/irc.freenode.net\/ExtremeSpasticity<\/a>. You will need an IRC Client such as HexChat to connect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last four days has seen me quite troubled and humbled.\u00a0 Until yesterday, I was testing four Amazon Echo Dots as disability assistants.\u00a0 Yesterday, I was bathing and I realized a bit of panic while in the Tub. I had transferred the Echo Dot from my bedroom to the bathroom to listen to the news.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}