{"id":13658,"date":"2013-12-18T16:30:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=13658"},"modified":"2013-12-18T16:30:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T16:30:05","slug":"new-christmas-album-signifies-alums-recovery-from-serious-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2013\/12\/new-christmas-album-signifies-alums-recovery-from-serious-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"New Christmas album signifies alum&#8217;s recovery from serious injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.josephfuller.com\/Christmastime.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"fuller-christmas-dec13\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fuller-christmas-dec13.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Fuller - Christmastime\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>If you love Christmas music, there\u2019s a new release by a Baylor alum with a story of perseverance behind it.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time that Joseph Fuller, MM \u201904, might never have imagined that his latest album, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Christmastime-Joseph-Fuller\/dp\/B00E82U1B4\/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1387381766&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Christmastime<\/em><\/a>, was even a possibility. Regaining basic motor skills after a major traffic accident seemed like a pretty big hurdle to climb for Fuller just a few short years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Though he loved piano from a young age, Fuller\u2019s career took him to the world of opera after receiving his master\u2019s degree at Baylor. His climb up the musical ladder, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shsu.edu\/pin_www\/T@S\/sliders\/2013\/josephfuller.html\" target=\"_blank\">came to an abrupt halt in 2006<\/a>\u00a0after a severe accident in Indianapolis. As his SUV overturned, Fuller received a blow to his head, rendering once-routine actions difficult. Rehab and recovery took him away from the piano for more than a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a day I remember sitting down at the piano and bursting into tears,\u201d Fuller recalls, \u201cbecause I could not play&#8230; There was a gap between my brain and my hands.\u201d While Fuller describes that time as a very dark period, he decided to push on rather than give in to despair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI realized I didn\u2019t have to let this beat me,\u201d Fuller says, \u201cbecause playing the piano and creating music is my calling. I\u2019d been given a gift, and I knew I could push through and retrain my body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, the evidence of that hard work is heard through his music, much of which can be heard on his website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.josephfuller.com\" target=\"_blank\">josephfuller.com<\/a>. His seasonal songs from the <em>Christmastime<\/em> album can also be heard on Pandora and found on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/christmastime\/id681714605\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Joseph!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you love Christmas music, there\u2019s a new release by a Baylor alum with a story of perseverance behind it. There was a time that Joseph Fuller, MM \u201904, might never have imagined that his latest album, Christmastime, was even a possibility. Regaining basic motor skills after a major traffic accident seemed like a pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-extraordinary-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}