{"id":7893,"date":"2017-11-09T08:05:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=7893"},"modified":"2017-11-08T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T17:26:00","slug":"hey-wawa-show-your-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/09\/hey-wawa-show-your-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Wawa!  Show your support!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Nov 9, 2017 @ 08:05<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ShinetheLight.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7891\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ShinetheLight-300x188.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ShinetheLight-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ShinetheLight.png 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Shine the Light on Woman Abuse is a public awareness campaign which originated in London, Ontario.\u00a0November is Woman Abuse Prevention Month in Ontario, and this year Wawa\u2019s Committee on Woman Abuse is participating in the campaign to Shine the Light on Woman Abuse.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The goals of the Shine the Light on Woman Abuse campaign are: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to raise awareness of men\u2019s violence against women by turning the Town of Wawa purple for the month of November through to Human Rights Day on December 10th<\/li>\n<li>to stand in solidarity with abused women and support them in understanding that any shame and\/or blame they may feel as a result of the abuse they are experiencing (or have experienced) does not belong to them but to the perpetrator of their abuse; and,<\/li>\n<li>to raise the profile of community agencies that can provide abused women with help as they attempt to live their lives free from violence and abuse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Purple? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Purple is a symbol of courage, survival and honour, and has come to symbolize the fight to end woman abuse.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How can the community help? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We invite local businesses, corporations, schools, places of worship, apartments, homes, etc. to go purple!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Decorate<\/strong> with purple lights, balloons, streamers or any other purple supplies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>November 17th<\/strong> is designated as <strong>\u201cWear Purple Day\u201d,<\/strong> where individuals are invited to wear purple to their workplaces and schools to show their support for Ending Violence Against Women<\/li>\n<li>Keep your Purple lights and decorations displayed through the <strong>16 Days of Action<\/strong> <strong>on Woman abuse<\/strong>; <strong>November 25<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong> is the International Day for the Elimination for the Elimination of\u00a0 Violence Against Women.\u00a0 \u00a0Continue to <strong>Shine the Light on Woman Abuse<\/strong> until <strong>Human Rights Day<\/strong> on <strong>December 10<sup>th\u00a0 <\/sup><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 9, 2017 @ 08:05 Shine the Light on Woman Abuse is a public awareness campaign which originated in London, Ontario.\u00a0November is Woman Abuse Prevention Month in Ontario, and this year Wawa\u2019s Committee on Woman Abuse is participating in the campaign to Shine the Light on Woman Abuse. &nbsp; The goals of the Shine the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":7891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[991],"class_list":["post-7893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-shine-the-light"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 16:04:41","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\/7893","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7894,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions\/7894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}