{"id":61172,"date":"2024-06-26T02:21:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T02:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=61172"},"modified":"2024-06-26T02:21:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T02:21:41","slug":"us-surgeon-general-declares-gun-violence-a-public-health-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/26\/us-surgeon-general-declares-gun-violence-a-public-health-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"US surgeon general declares gun violence a public health emergency"},"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><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60843\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Guns-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Guns-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Guns-360x202.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Guns.jpg 419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. surgeon general on Tuesday declared gun violence a public health crisis, driven by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/gun-violence-science-health-covid-mental-20f5e2cb5fb50ff747fe316fdc4db5c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">fast-growing number of injuries and deaths<\/a> involving firearms in the country.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/other\/us-surgeon-general-declares-gun-violence-a-public-health-emergency\/ar-BB1oQnoa?bncnt=BroadcastNews_TopStories&amp;ocid=BingNewsSerp&amp;FORM=BNC001&amp;cvid=86649c44f28d40ec9cb3a3c3d3f3a3d2&amp;ei=32\">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>The U.S. surgeon general on Tuesday declared gun violence a public health crisis, driven by the\u00a0fast-growing number of injuries and deaths involving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/US-Surgeon-General.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61172","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=61172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61174,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61172\/revisions\/61174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}