{"id":335,"date":"2020-07-25T02:40:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T02:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.megathe.me\/test2\/vivienne\/?p=335"},"modified":"2020-07-25T02:40:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T02:40:13","slug":"this-is-why-people-refuse-to-practice-social-distancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/25\/this-is-why-people-refuse-to-practice-social-distancing\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Why People Refuse to Practice Social Distancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many of you, I\u2019m spending more of my days scrolling through IG stories of cooked meals, workouts, and insane memes. Thus, a picture of a crowded park in New York City in late March stopped me in my tracks.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Disgusted, Rebecca retreated to the safety of her apartment. She then posted a graphic showing that this park\u2019s neighborhood is in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/assets\/doh\/downloads\/pdf\/imm\/covid-19-data-map-04082020-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest tier for patients testing positive for COVID-19 at 61\u201377%<\/a> as of April 8th in NYC.<\/p>\n<p>This lack of social distancing isn\u2019t unique to NYC. Around the world, friends are meeting up to exercise. Churches insist on holding services for large congregations.<\/p>\n<p>This lack of social distancing isn\u2019t unique to NYC. Around the world, friends are meeting up to exercise. Churches insist on holding services for large congregations.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not as simple as a lack of information. Most people understand that COVID-19 is causing a worldwide, deadly illness and everyone should stay home to stop its spread.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the message doesn\u2019t connect with everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m spending more of my days scrolling through IG stories of cooked meals, workouts, and insane memes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8,9,11],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","tag-consulting","tag-design","tag-empathy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}