{"id":57064,"date":"2011-01-21T13:29:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T09:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=57064"},"modified":"2011-01-21T13:29:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T09:29:24","slug":"go-ahead-hug-a-stranger-today-is-national-hugging-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/01\/21\/go-ahead-hug-a-stranger-today-is-national-hugging-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Go Ahead &#038; Hug a Stranger! Today is National Hugging Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Jan. 21, 1986, National Hugging Day was founded in the US. It has spread all over the world and is called by many names \u2014 Hug Day, World Hug Day, Send a Hug Day, International Hug Day, and even Hug a Bear Day.<\/p>\n<p>This global &#8220;virtual&#8221; Hug for Peace celebrating World Hug Day allows people to show the world that peace begins with each of us.<\/p>\n<p>Some suggestions shared online for celebrating National Hugging Day include join or create a Hug Club, substitute hugs for handshakes, make or rent a bear costume and visit children or seniors as a &#8220;Bear Hugger,&#8221; hand out National Hugging Day limited edition Hug Coupons, try to create the longest National Hugging Day chain, and hold a Hug-a-thon.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers advise &#8220;huggers&#8221; to always ask first and make the day fun for everyone, especially family and friends.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Jan. 21, 1986, National Hugging Day was founded in the US. It has spread all over the world and is called by many names&#8230; <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20426,20427,20424,20425,20423,20422],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}