{"id":120196,"date":"2014-05-19T21:52:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T03:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/the-week-to-hug-ems-workers\/"},"modified":"2014-05-19T21:52:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T03:52:58","slug":"the-week-to-hug-ems-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/the-week-to-hug-ems-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"The week to hug EMS workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Established by President Gerald Ford in 1973, EMS week is a gesture of gratitude for those on the frontline of health care, who respond 24 hours a day with care to the 25 million emergency transportations each year in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Many emergency medical service personnel, especially in rural areas, are volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>EMS coordinator for Southwest Colorado Community College, T. Troy Salazar, said the designation offers an opportunity for communities to show their appreciation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the week to thank those people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the  National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians website,  www.emsweekideas.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Established by President Gerald Ford in 1973, EMS week is a gesture of gratitude for those on the frontline of health care, who respond 24 hours a day with care to the 25 million emergency transportations each year in the U.S. Many emergency medical service personnel, especially in rural areas, are volunteer. EMS coordinator for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[971,13,1938],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-120196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-emergency-planning","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-medicine"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120196"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=120196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}