{"id":20589,"date":"2019-04-29T17:31:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T17:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=20589"},"modified":"2019-04-29T17:31:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T17:31:23","slug":"me-awareness-week-6-12-may-2019-what-can-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/me-awareness-week-6-12-may-2019-what-can-we-do\/","title":{"rendered":"ME Awareness Week, 6-12 May 2019- what can WE do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #3b39c4;\"><strong>WAMES in Awareness week<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>From Saturday 6th to Friday 12th May &#8211; this year&#8217;s ME awareness week &#8211; WAMES will be continuing our efforts to raise awareness and inform doctors about ME, as part of our campaign to improve diagnosis in Wales.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #3b39c4;\"><strong>As individuals what can we do?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3b39c4;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/2017\/05\/me-awareness-wear-blue-for-awareness-week-2017\/blue-nails\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12912\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12912 alignright lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blue-nails.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blue-nails.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blue-nails.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blue-nails.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blue-nails.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blue-nails.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><\/a>Go Blue &#8211; <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">clothes, buildings, hair, ribbons etc. all make a statement and invite conversations about what ME is really like. Do you know a building near you that lights up at night? Why not ask them to go blue?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3535b0;\"><strong>Unrest &#8211; <\/strong><\/span>Encourage people to attend the Unrest screening in Bangor on ME Awareness day, the 12th May.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #3535b0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/2019\/04\/me-awareness-week-6-12-may-2019-what-can-we-do\/blue-twibbon\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20700\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-20700 size-thumbnail lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blue-twibbon.png?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blue-twibbon.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blue-twibbon.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blue-twibbon.png?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\" \/><\/a>Protest virtually<\/span> <\/strong>with WAMES and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meaction.net\/2019\/04\/22\/how-to-protest-virtually-with-the-millionsmissing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MillionsMissing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2a2a9c;\"><strong>Tell your story <\/strong>&#8211; <span style=\"color: #000000;\">send it to the media, blogs, your FB page or send it to WAMES and we will post it on the WAMES website and use it in our campaign.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Share your plans, photos etc. so we can all see ME in the spotlight in Wales.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAMES in Awareness week From Saturday 6th to Friday 12th May &#8211; this year&#8217;s ME awareness week &#8211; WAMES will be continuing our efforts to raise awareness and inform doctors about ME, as part of our campaign to improve diagnosis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/me-awareness-week-6-12-may-2019-what-can-we-do\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-20589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-me-awareness-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-5m5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20589"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20708,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20589\/revisions\/20708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}