{"id":458,"date":"2011-02-14T16:04:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T19:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/?p=458"},"modified":"2011-02-14T16:07:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T19:37:22","slug":"458","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/2011\/02\/14\/458\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Hairy Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends,<\/p>\n<p>You may have seen links I&#8217;ve posted about Feb-U-Hairy on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vmiddleton\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/vmiddleton\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. If you haven&#8217;t, the month of February has been renamed as part of a project to help raise awareness about the importance of Pap Tests. Two medical students from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.med.mun.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Memorial University<\/a>\u00a0are encouraging women (and men) to not shave their legs for the entire month and collect donations for the local Pap clinic at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlsexualhealthcentre.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Planned Parenthood <\/a>here in St. John&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>And gentlemen, fear not &#8211; you haven&#8217;t been left out as we&#8217;ve even had some guys shave their legs so that they too can join in the fun! I&#8217;m asking you for your support in my efforts to raise funds and awareness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/hairyVM2011\"><strong>Can I be your hairy valentine?!?!<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Metro2copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-459\" title=\"Hairy Valentine\" src=\"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Metro2copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Metro2copy.jpg 901w, http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Metro2copy-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Metro2copy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;But Virginia, what the deal with this image?&#8221;<\/em> you ask?! Well it was an ad I found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metronews.ca\/toronto\">Toronto Metro<\/a>, a commuter magazine back when I was at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centennialcollege.ca\/thecentre\/corporate\" target=\"_blank\">Centennial College<\/a>\u00a0in Toronto in 2005. It seems fitting since Valentine&#8217;s Day now happens during a rather <em>hairy<\/em> month.<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t delay &#8211; pledge me today! <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/hairyVM2011\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/hairyVM2011<\/a> Every dollar counts!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your support,<br \/>\nVirginia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends, You may have seen links I&#8217;ve posted about Feb-U-Hairy on Facebook and Twitter. If you haven&#8217;t, the month of February has been renamed as part of a project to help raise awareness about the importance of Pap Tests. Two medical students from Memorial University\u00a0are encouraging women (and men) to not shave their legs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[64,68,21,27,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3zorl-458","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}