{"id":11,"date":"2006-11-18T19:15:19","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T03:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/2006\/11\/18\/sunday-is-a-day-of-remembrance\/"},"modified":"2006-11-18T19:18:11","modified_gmt":"2006-11-19T03:18:11","slug":"sunday-is-a-day-of-remembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/2006\/11\/18\/sunday-is-a-day-of-remembrance\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday is a Day of Remembrance."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, being the 3rd Sunday in November, is the World Day of Remembrance for road traffic victims, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/mediacentre\/news\/notes\/2006\/np34\/en\/index.html\">according to the World Health Organization<\/a> (WMO).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In a split second, a traffic crash transforms forever the life of a family. Behind each statistic, there are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, grandchildren, colleagues, classmates and friends,&#8221; notes Dr Etienne Krug, Director of the WHO Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention. &#8220;For every death or injury, there are scores of people who must cope with the physical, psychological or economic aftermath.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think such traffic accidents leave anyone unaffected who has lived a few decades. Over the years, I&#8217;ve lost colleagues and had colleagues who have lost parts of their families; several times in California central valley winter fog. It&#8217;s worth a thought or two to prevent what each of us can prevent by a bit of care as we approach this year&#8217;s Thanksgiving holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, being the 3rd Sunday in November, is the World Day of Remembrance for road traffic victims, according to the World Health Organization (WMO). &#8220;In a split second, a traffic crash transforms forever the life of a family. Behind each statistic, there are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, grandchildren, colleagues, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramblemuse.com\/rmtp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}