{"id":19609,"date":"2019-03-06T12:26:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T12:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19609"},"modified":"2019-03-06T12:26:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T12:26:03","slug":"aids-walk-raises-awareness-generates-dialogue-in-ventura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/06\/aids-walk-raises-awareness-generates-dialogue-in-ventura\/","title":{"rendered":"AIDS Walk raises awareness, generates dialogue in Ventura"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div style=\"width: 1090px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/03\/03\/PVCS\/bf90d6c5-039c-4992-8b98-bbf49b435f48-Walkers.jpg?width=1080&amp;quality=50\" width=\"1080\" height=\"855\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Ong Palao, who goes by the stage name Ongina on &#8220;RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race,&#8221; leads the way on Saturday during the 2019 AIDS Walk Ventura at Plaza Park in Ventura.<br \/>ALICIA DOYLE\/SPECIAL TO THE STAR<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Raising awareness\u00a0and generating more dialogue about HIV and AIDS\u00a0were the goals of Saturday\u2019s AIDS Walk at Plaza Park in Ventura, presented by Diversity Collective of Ventura County.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the pouring rain, at least 200 people were in attendance out of 400 who initially signed up. In addition to the 5K walk, the event featured a health fair with several vendors, including the Coalition for Family Harmony, Ventura County Public Health\u00a0and the Rainbow Umbrella, a support program for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and questioning youths ages 13 to 23. <a href=\"https:\/\/eu.vcstar.com\/story\/news\/2019\/03\/02\/aids-walk-raises-awareness-generates-dialogue-ventura\/3020519002\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Raising awareness\u00a0and generating more dialogue about HIV and AIDS\u00a0were the goals of Saturday\u2019s AIDS Walk at Plaza Park in Ventura, presented by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}