{"id":2789,"date":"2013-01-29T06:24:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T06:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2013-01-29T06:24:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T06:24:04","slug":"un-observance-days-or-should-that-be-daze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/01\/29\/un-observance-days-or-should-that-be-daze\/","title":{"rendered":"UN observance days \u2013 or should that be daze?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The UN has a long\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/observances\/days.shtml\">list<\/a> of \"observance days\", and weeks, and years. \u00a0It is mesmerising. \u00a0In addition to\u00a0International <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/motherearthday\">Mother Earth<\/a> Day, the International Day for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/biodiversityday\">Biological Diversity<\/a>,\u00a0World <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/refugeeday\">Refugee <\/a>Day, World <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/habitatday\">Habitat<\/a> Day, and\u00a0World <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/oceansday\">Oceans<\/a> Day, which seem ok, sort of, we have the\u00a0International <a href=\"International Jazz Day\">Jazz<\/a> Day,\u00a0World <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/unesco\/events\/prizes-and-celebrations\/celebrations\/international-days\/world-teachersday\">Teachers' Day<\/a> (take a stand for teachers),\u00a0World <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/postday\">Post<\/a> Day, and\u00a0World <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/tourismday\/index.shtml\">Tourism<\/a> Day, which somehow seem oddd. \u00a0The next one is on Sunday (4th): World <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/mediacentre\/events\/annual\/world_cancer_day\/en\/index.html\">Cancer<\/a> day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Curiously, some days are 'day-free', whilst others have multiple 'days': there are 5 on the 21st March, for example. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The longest day is the\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: normal;text-align: left\"><em>International Day for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/righttotruthday\">Right<\/a> to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims<\/em>, and the shortest is the <\/span><span style=\"line-height: normal;text-align: left\"><em>Day of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/vesakday\">Vesak<\/a><\/em>. \u00a0Whilst there are so many missing 'days', the most obvious is the <em>UN Day of UN Days<\/em>. \u00a0My birthday is currently free. \u00a0Go on, ...<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: normal;text-align: left\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN has a long\u00a0list of \"observance days\", and weeks, and years. \u00a0It is mesmerising. \u00a0In addition to\u00a0International Mother Earth Day, the International Day for Biological Diversity,\u00a0World Refugee Day, World Habitat Day, and\u00a0World Oceans Day, which seem ok, sort of,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}