{"id":10592,"date":"2014-01-30T14:33:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T19:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=10592"},"modified":"2014-01-30T14:33:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T19:33:39","slug":"letter-for-kids-sake-we-need-to-fight-for-clean-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=10592","title":{"rendered":"Letter: for kids sake, we need to fight for clean air"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>To The Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Letters1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-711820\" style=\"margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Letters1\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Letters1.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a>Lately, I\u2019ve been thinking about the quality of the air we breathe.\u00a0 The World Health Organization recently labeled all outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic.\u00a0 Several decades worth of industrial and vehicle emissions have poisoned our air.\u00a0 And I can\u2019t help but wonder what this means for my children and for all children exposed to these toxins.\u00a0 Contaminated air just can\u2019t be good for developing lungs.<!--more--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>I am the mother of two children &#8211; one is at college, and the other is in middle school. I worry about their health, especially their lung health.\u00a0 How is the air they breathe today going to impact their lungs long-term?\u00a0 I also work with children on a daily basis, and some of them have asthma.\u00a0 It is heart-breaking to watch them struggle to catch their breath.\u00a0 They need clean air.\u00a0 We all need clean air. And we deserve it.<\/p>\n<p>So what can we do to get clean air?\u00a0 The task may seem overwhelming, especially as it involves taking on big industries. \u00a0But it\u2019s not impossible.\u00a0 If each of us takes just one or two steps to help clean our air, we can make a difference.\u00a0 Find out what you can do by contacting your local chapter of the American Lung Association.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Lynette Fallen<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Lincoln University<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To The Editor, Lately, I\u2019ve been thinking about the quality of the air we breathe.\u00a0 The World Health Organization recently labeled all outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic.\u00a0 Several decades worth of industrial and vehicle emissions have poisoned our air.\u00a0 And I can\u2019t help but wonder what this means for my children and for all children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[3531,3624,3943,3944],"class_list":["post-10592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-air-pollution","tag-american-lung-association","tag-clean-air","tag-healthy-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}