{"id":67570,"date":"2021-02-08T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/state-says-spread-kindness-not-covid-with-new-campaign\/"},"modified":"2021-02-08T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T07:30:00","slug":"state-says-spread-kindness-not-covid-with-new-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/state-says-spread-kindness-not-covid-with-new-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"State says spread kindness, not COVID with new campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Department of Health and Social Services is challenging Alaskans to do random acts of kindness with a new Pay It Forward campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the month of February, with an emphasis on Feb. 12-19, organizations, businesses and individuals are encouraged to pay it forward, the department said in a news release. That can mean anything from thanking someone to shoveling a neighbor&rsquo;s driveway to dropping off food at a food bank.<\/p>\n<p>People are encouraged to share posts and videos of how they paid it forward on social media with the hashtag &ldquo;#WithYouAlaska.&rdquo; Posters can challenge friends and loved ones to pay it forward by tagging them in the posts.<\/p>\n<p>More information is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/3714087715349100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pay It Forward event page on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><ins><strong>Read the news release announcing the campaign below: <\/strong><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\"\n  src=\"https:\/\/embed.documentcloud.org\/documents\/20476118-dhss_media-advisory_pay-it-forward1_20210209\/?embed=1&#038;title=1\"\n  title=\"DHSS_Media Advisory_Pay It Forward1_20210209 (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\"\n  width=\"700\"\n  height=\"905\"\n  style=\"border: 1px solid #aaa;\"\n  sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms\"\n><\/iframe><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#WithYouAlaska <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":67571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[703,230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-67570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67570"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=67570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}