{"id":1324,"date":"2014-10-09T19:46:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T00:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2014-10-09T19:46:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T00:46:39","slug":"spirit-day-to-be-celebrated-on-october-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1324","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Day to be celebrated on October 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>GLAAD&#8217;s annual anti-bullying Spirit Day will be taking place this year on October 16th. LGBTQ persons and their supporters are encouraged to wear purple to promote awareness of the problems that bullying causes. <a href=\"http:\/\/joemygod.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/new-york-city-empire-state-building-to.html\">Via press release:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spirit Day, which will take place on October 16, inspires millions to wear purple or \u201cgo purple\u201d online in a united stand against bullying and to show their support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth. Each year, Spirit Day draws the participation of celebrities, corporations, media outlets, sports leagues, schools, faith institutions, national landmarks, and individuals. Spirit Day is made possible by the generous support of its national partners PepsiCo and Wells Fargo, as well as official partners Comcast-NBCUniversal and Google, and supporting partner American Eagle Outfitters. \u201cBy recognizing National Bullying Prevention Month and lighting in purple for Spirit Day, the world\u2019s most famous office building is supporting countless kids across the world,\u201d said GLAAD President &amp; CEO Sarah Kate Ellis. \u201cAt a time when eight in 10 LGBT youth are harassed at school, it\u2019s critical that we let them know it\u2019s okay to be who you are.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman GLAAD&#8217;s annual anti-bullying Spirit Day will be taking place this year on October 16th. LGBTQ persons and their supporters are encouraged to wear purple to promote awareness of the problems that bullying causes. Via press release: Spirit Day, which will take place on October 16, inspires millions to wear purple or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","category-opportunities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}