{"id":193683,"date":"2010-01-17T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=8306"},"modified":"2010-01-17T10:00:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T15:00:30","slug":"immunization-faqs-and-some-nice-stories-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/193683","title":{"rendered":"Immunization FAQs, and some nice stories | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.childrensimmunization.org\/thanks\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/01\/COkids_thanksathon.jpg\" alt=\"COkids_thanksathon\" title=\"COkids_thanksathon\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10160\"\/><\/a>I&#8217;m a fan of the Colorado Children&#8217;s Immunization Coalition, whose purpose is to make sure my home state&#8217;s kids are healthy and not susceptible to preventable diseases (<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/immunizecokids\">they&#8217;re on Twitter, too<\/a>!). Last Thanksgiving, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.childrensimmunization.org\/thanks\">they had a &#8220;Thanks-a-thon&#8221;<\/a>, letting Coloradans post their messages and stories about their kids. It&#8217;s a great read, with lots of heart-warming &#8212; and some harrowing &#8212; stories. <\/p>\n<p>And while I&#8217;m at it, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.aap.org\/immunization\/index.html\">here is a great immunization FAQ<\/a> posted by the American Academy of Pediatrics. In it you&#8217;ll see something very hard to find on the web: actual science-based facts about vaccinations, without the scare tactics employed constantly by the antivax (what some people call the pro-disease) crowd. If you&#8217;re wondering about getting yourself or your kids vaccinated, please check out that site and read it carefully. You may be saving not only your child&#8217;s life, but the lives of other children as well.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/v4xhUN1A9kI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a fan of the Colorado Children&#8217;s Immunization Coalition, whose purpose is to make sure my home state&#8217;s kids are healthy and not susceptible to preventable diseases (they&#8217;re on Twitter, too!). Last Thanksgiving, they had a &#8220;Thanks-a-thon&#8221;, letting Coloradans post their messages and stories about their kids. It&#8217;s a great read, with lots of heart-warming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}