{"id":66217,"date":"2014-08-13T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/66217\/support-the-cansa-relay-for-life\/"},"modified":"2014-08-15T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T07:06:00","slug":"support-the-cansa-relay-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/08\/13\/support-the-cansa-relay-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Support the Cansa Relay for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cansa Relay For Life is a unique event offering everyone in a community the opportunity to participate in the fight against cancer.<\/p>\n<p>It is a fun-filled, overnight team event that raises awareness of cancer in the community and much needed funds to fight the disease.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The event is volunteer-driven and community-owned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the heart of Relay for Life is the opportunity to celebrate cancer survivors, honour their caregivers, to remember those who have left us and create awareness about cancer,&#8221; said Sharon Britz, Relay For Life coordinator.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The Relay For Life event opens with a heartfelt Survivors Lap, celebrating cancer survivors.<\/p>\n<p>This is followed by a Caregivers Lap, which honours all caregivers of those affected by cancer.<\/p>\n<p>A caregiver is anyone who has ever taken care of someone; in this the focus is on a cancer patient.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it is a parent, spouse, sibling, cousin, grandchild or friend, irrespective of age and qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>Cansa invites all survivors and caregivers to a Relay in their community.<\/p>\n<p>Visit www.relayforlife.org.za for more information, or contact Sharon Britz on 087 940 8356 or 083 460 6532.<\/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='ecf2634b8e4df7d0a845c05b89bff2c3'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cansa Relay For Life is a unique event offering everyone in a community the opportunity to participate in the fight against cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":66456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[4239,4237,4238,8297,1012,1003,1106,979,2730],"class_list":["post-66217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-cancer-survivors","tag-cansa-relay-for-life","tag-caregivers","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["cancer survivors","cansa relay for life","caregivers","community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66217","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}