{"id":29670,"date":"2017-04-26T00:45:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T00:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viralnova.com\/hugging-day\/"},"modified":"2017-04-26T00:45:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T00:45:35","slug":"when-you-hug-an-animal-big-or-small-they-know-you-mean-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/29670","title":{"rendered":"When You Hug An Animal — Big Or Small — They Know You Mean Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 21 was National Hugging Day — and before you say, ‘Wait…there’s a day for that?’ let me reassure you that <em>of course<\/em> there is, and it’s <strong>incredibly important<\/strong>. So it may not be equal to Independence Day, but some might argue it’s a close second. <\/p><p>Here to show you just how important — oh yeah, and adorable — it is are the incredible folks over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgarsmission.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edgar’s Mission<\/a> in Australia. <\/p> <div class=\"video-container\">[vimeo 152508514 w=100 h=500]<\/div> <h3>Would someone possibly, maybe, perhaps give me a hug? After that, I’m dying for one!<\/h3> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/14930919786384-giphy.gif\" \/> <p>If you’d like to learn more about the incredible work that Edgar’s Mission does at their animal sanctuary, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgarsmission.org.au\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">you can do so here<\/a>.<\/p><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viralnova.com\/hugging-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.viralnova.com\/hugging-day\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 21 was National Hugging Day — and before you say, ‘Wait…there’s a day for that?’ let me reassure you that of course there is, and it’s incredibly important. So it may not be equal to Independence Day, but some might argue it’s a close second. Here to show you just how important — oh &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/29670\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When You Hug An Animal — Big Or Small — They Know You Mean Well<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[180],"tags":[1508,5876,6815,6814,686,6810,209,6811,6812,1860,6813],"class_list":["post-29670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture","tag-adorable","tag-amanda-black","tag-animal-hugs","tag-animal-sanctuary","tag-australia","tag-cows","tag-cute","tag-hug","tag-hugging","tag-life","tag-sanctuary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/14930919804282-800x420-1453753394.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}