{"id":102319,"date":"2015-10-15T08:52:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T06:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/102319\/quick-facts-on-why-you-should-wash-your-hands\/"},"modified":"2015-10-15T08:52:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T06:52:42","slug":"quick-facts-on-why-you-should-wash-your-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/10\/15\/quick-facts-on-why-you-should-wash-your-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick facts on why you should wash your hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 15 is <a href=\"http:\/\/globalhandwashing.org\/about-handwashing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Global Handwashing Day<\/a>, an initiative which was launched in 2008 to help increase awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an effective and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives.<\/p>\n<p>We use our hands for most daily tasks, and we are constantly in contact with others! Not washing your hands after visiting the loo can infect your kids, family, co-workers, and so forth.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>5 facts about handwashing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randfonteinherald.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/WHY-YOU-SHOULD-WASH-YOUR-HANDS2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-199127 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/randfonteinherald.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/WHY-YOU-SHOULD-WASH-YOUR-HANDS2.jpg\" alt=\"WHY YOU SHOULD WASH YOUR HANDS(2)\" width=\"800\" height=\"2000\" \/><\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='393c0ad62de57124e67538b0a50de884'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Global Handwashing Day. We tend to assume that this is such an easy practice, and that everyone is doing so. Are you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5696,"featured_media":102320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8677,8738,8739],"class_list":["post-102319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-hands","tag-hygiene","tag-washing"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["hands","hygiene","washing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}