{"id":12300,"date":"2018-05-04T07:48:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T11:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=12300"},"modified":"2020-06-19T05:47:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T09:47:59","slug":"friday-morning-news-may-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/04\/friday-morning-news-may-4th\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Morning News &#8211; May 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>May 4, 2018 @ 07:48<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Weather<\/strong> &#8211; Mainly cloudy. 60 percent chance of showers late this morning and this afternoon. Wind becoming northwest 20 km\/h this afternoon. High 13. UV index 5 or moderate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News Tidbits<\/strong> &#8211; May the Fourth be with you! Today is Star Wars Day, May 4, which celebrates George Lucas&#8217; Star Wars saga.<\/p>\n<p>The Star is asking a very important question, &#8220;Why did the maker of OxyContin pay Canadian doctors nearly three-and-a-half times more money per capita than it doled out to U.S. prescribers? Purdue Canada gave just over $2 million to Canadian health-care professionals in 2016 for services such as consulting and delivering speeches on conditions and treatments.\u00a0Purdue gave $24 for every Canadian physician, while its U.S. operations handed out a little under $6 for every American prescriber.&#8221; Those are some very disturbing statisics. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/investigations\/2018\/05\/03\/why-did-the-maker-of-oxycontin-pay-canadian-doctors-nearly-three-and-a-half-times-more-money-per-capita-than-it-doled-out-to-us-prescribers.html?source=newsletter&amp;utm_source=ts_nl&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_email=3610ACDB5850D21B9FC5AEA49105FD16&amp;utm_campaign=tmh_2840&amp;utm_content=a01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read article here<\/a>. This article for the New Yorker is also a very interesting read &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/10\/30\/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Time is running out, so don&#8217;t forget that the The Screen for Life Bus (mobile cancer screening service, offering breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening) will be in Wawa next week. Call 1-800-461-7031 to book your appointment now!<\/p>\n<p>And finally on the bright side &#8211; tonight is the annual spring By Hands Festival!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 4, 2018 @ 07:48 Weather &#8211; Mainly cloudy. 60 percent chance of showers late this morning and this afternoon. Wind becoming northwest 20 km\/h this afternoon. High 13. UV index 5 or moderate. News Tidbits &#8211; May the Fourth be with you! Today is Star Wars Day, May 4, which celebrates George Lucas&#8217; Star &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[224],"class_list":["post-12300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-friday-morning-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 02:07:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33130,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12300\/revisions\/33130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}