{"id":83126,"date":"2026-05-08T07:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=83126"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:16:03","slug":"friday-morning-news-may-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/friday-morning-news-may-8th\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Morning News &#8211; May 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Weather:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table class=\"table mrgn-bttm-md textforecast\" style=\"height: 163px;\" width=\"600\" data-v-1c24213a=\"\">\n<tbody data-v-1c24213a=\"\">\n<tr class=\"pdg-btm-0\" data-v-1c24213a=\"\">\n<td data-v-1c24213a=\"\"><strong title=\"Friday\" data-v-1c24213a=\"\">Today<\/strong><\/td>\n<td data-v-1c24213a=\"\">A mix of sun and cloud with 30% chance of showers late this morning and early this afternoon. Becoming sunny late this afternoon. Wind becoming southwest 20 km\/h late this morning. High 8. Wind chill -5 this morning. UV index 5 or moderate.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"pdg-tp-0\" data-v-1c24213a=\"\">\n<td data-v-1c24213a=\"\"><strong title=\"Friday night\" data-v-1c24213a=\"\">Tonight<\/strong><\/td>\n<td data-v-1c24213a=\"\">Increasing cloudiness early this evening. 60% chance of showers overnight. Low 1.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>News Tidbits:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beginning July 1st, Ontario is lowering the colorectal cancer screening age from 50 to 45 in response to a &#8220;notable&#8221; increase in younger people diagnosed with the disease. People under 50 are two-to-2.5 times more likely to be diagnosed with colorectal cancer than they were in previous generations. Screening is done via a fecal immunochemical test \u2014 or FIT \u2014 and it involves swabbing stool at home and then dropping it off or sending it to a lab. A positive result will then require a colonoscopy and further testing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather: Today A mix of sun and cloud with 30% chance of showers late this morning and early this afternoon. Becoming sunny late this afternoon. Wind becoming southwest 20 km\/h late this morning. High 8. Wind chill -5 this morning. UV index 5 or moderate. Tonight Increasing cloudiness early this evening. 60% chance of showers &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-15 08:02:26","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\/83126","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=83126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83127,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83126\/revisions\/83127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}