{"id":8219,"date":"2016-05-11T06:42:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T06:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=8219"},"modified":"2016-05-11T06:44:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T06:44:27","slug":"me-awareness-qa-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/me-awareness-qa-8\/","title":{"rendered":"ME Awareness Q&#038;A 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Q.<\/strong> What is ME?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong>\u00a0ME is a severely disabling condition for both children and adults. It\u00a0 potentially threatens physical, emotional, and intellectual development of children and young people, and can disrupt education and social and family life, at a particularly vulnerable time of life.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers found that children and young people with ME had a poorer quality of life\u00a0than children with diabetes or asthma.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8242 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/10171779_630045003756696_4903602241771597683_n1.jpg?resize=736%2C736\" alt=\"Children become ill too\" width=\"736\" height=\"736\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/10171779_630045003756696_4903602241771597683_n1.jpg?w=736&amp;ssl=1 736w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/10171779_630045003756696_4903602241771597683_n1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/10171779_630045003756696_4903602241771597683_n1.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 736px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 736\/736;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is ME Awareness week !<\/p>\n<p><strong>ME Awareness day:<\/strong> 12 May<\/p>\n<p>Awareness and fundraising activities will be taking place around the world during the month of May.<\/p>\n<p>Tell us what you are doing and how you would answer the question: What is ME?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. What is ME? A.\u00a0ME is a severely disabling condition for both children and adults. It\u00a0 potentially threatens physical, emotional, and intellectual development of children and young people, and can disrupt education and social and family life, at a particularly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/me-awareness-qa-8\/\">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-8219","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-28z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219","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=8219"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8246,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions\/8246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}