{"id":78252,"date":"2014-08-15T21:55:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T11:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=78252"},"modified":"2020-11-27T14:07:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T04:07:27","slug":"a-new-way-of-seeing-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/08\/15\/a-new-way-of-seeing-things\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Way Of Seeing Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_78254\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78254\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140815musician1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-78254\" title=\"20140815 Lorin Nicholson\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140815musician1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140815musician1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140815musician1-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Motivational speaker, musician, cyclist and legally blind &#8230; Lorin Nicholson was at St Mary&#8217;s Catholic College on Friday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78253\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78253\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140815musician2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78253\" title=\"20140815 Lorin Nicholson\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140815musician2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140815musician2.jpg 200w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140815musician2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140815musician2-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With the help of Year 6 student Riley Frank &#8211; who was wearing special goggles to reduce his sight &#8211; Lorin demonstrates how he has to use other skills\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>August 15, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brisbane motivational speaker Lorin Nicholson dropped into St Mary&#8217;s Catholic College on Friday to give students a lesson in music, \u00a0understanding and courage.<\/p>\n<p>Lorin was born legally blind. He has retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that has left him with only the most marginal of sight.<\/p>\n<p>However that has not stopped him from becoming a talented musician, a successful businessman and a cyclist (he once rode a tandem pushbike from Perth to Sydney).<\/p>\n<p>Lorin shared his music and personal life story with the St Mary&#8217;s students in various groups across the day \u00a0&#8211; and even tossed in some music tips along the way.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Promo video from Lorin&#8217;s website:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><object width=\"740\" height=\"440\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sjCwiK4sK1U?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"620\" height=\"349\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sjCwiK4sK1U?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" \/><\/object><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brisbane motivational speaker Lorin Nicholson dropped into St Mary&#8217;s Catholic College on Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":78254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,395],"tags":[35],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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