{"id":3708,"date":"2012-04-05T18:02:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T23:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2012-04-19T15:13:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T20:13:45","slug":"sioux-city-is-hopeful-in-the-blue-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/3708","title":{"rendered":"Sioux City is hopeful in the &#8220;Blue Zone&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3709\" style=\"margin-top: 6px;margin-bottom: 6px;margin-left: 8px;margin-right: 8px\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2012\/04\/running-200x133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><strong>By Brittany Conolly~<br \/>\n<\/strong>Sioux City is in the running to become a Blue Zone. With students from Morningside lending a helping hand, Sioux City could become one of the top ten communities to become one of the nationwide Blue Zones.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011 Governor Terry Branstad called to action a plan for a healthier Iowa. This was named The Healthy State Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Morningside needs to be aware of what Blue Zone can do for a community. The resident health care professional, Carol Garvey, wants students to get involved. \u201cFirst of all, students need to CARE about the health of all communities but especially their own community, Morningside College, and care enough\u00a0about themselves.\u201d Not only should Morningside, as a small community, become healthy but Sioux City should participate.<\/p>\n<p>Carol suggests, \u201cExercise and healthier habits\u00a0regarding stress, nutrition, sleep, personal safety, emotional and social health all create happier more positive\u00a0people and that will lift up the entire community over time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These reasons alone should ensure someone to become a healthier, happier person. Students and people in the community can make Sioux City a better place, but most importantly themselves healthier. As Garvey puts it, \u201cWe are already a friendly midwest community but this will make people feel better about themselves and others\u00a0if they are willing to &#8220;play&#8221; and participate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brittany Conolly~ Sioux City is in the running to become a Blue Zone. With students from Morningside lending a helping hand, Sioux City could become one of the top ten communities to become one of the nationwide Blue Zones. In 2011 Governor Terry Branstad called to action a plan for a healthier Iowa. This&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3792,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions\/3792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}