{"id":62193,"date":"2023-08-23T07:58:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T11:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=62193"},"modified":"2023-08-23T07:50:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T11:50:56","slug":"wednesday-morning-news-august-23-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/23\/wednesday-morning-news-august-23-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Morning News &#8211; August 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Aug 23, 2023 at 07:58<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Weather:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today &#8211; Showers ending this morning then cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers. Risk of a thunderstorm this morning. Wind becoming southeast 20 km\/h late this morning. High 16. UV index 5 or moderate.<\/li>\n<li>Tonight &#8211; Cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers or drizzle. Low 13.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Forest Fire Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are 33 (33 yesterday) active wildland fires in the Northeast Region, 4 are under control and 29 are being observed.<\/p>\n<p>The wildland fire hazard is moderate to high across the Northeast Region today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>News Tidbits:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Bay mayors have been awarded &#8216;Strong Mayor Powers&#8217; by Premier Doug Ford. The strong mayor powers will come into effect on Oct. 31.<\/li>\n<li>Nomophobia (NO MObile PHone PhoBIA) &#8211; when a person experiences fear or anxiety about not having mobile phone connectivity. The NIH now considers this a legitimate condition. Someone suffering from nomophobia could experience symptoms like changes in breathing, sweating, agitation, disorientation, and even fear or anxiety.<\/li>\n<li>The OPP has received a number of inquiries regarding an investigation into the Greenbelt. To avoid any potential perceived conflict of interest, the OPP referred this matter to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 23, 2023 at 07:58 Weather: Today &#8211; Showers ending this morning then cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers. Risk of a thunderstorm this morning. Wind becoming southeast 20 km\/h late this morning. High 16. UV index 5 or moderate. Tonight &#8211; Cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers or drizzle. Low 13. Forest &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 03:42:39","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\/62193","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62196,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62193\/revisions\/62196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}