{"id":19192,"date":"2013-02-22T23:55:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T04:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=19192"},"modified":"2013-02-22T23:55:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T04:55:07","slug":"colorful-ochopee-post-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/02\/colorful-ochopee-post-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorful Ochopee Post Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/colorful-ochopee-post-office\/co-post-office\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19193\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19193\" title=\"CO Post Office\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CO-Post-Office-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CO-Post-Office-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CO-Post-Office.png 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>First there was pink and now RED!\u00a0 When a representative from the American Heart Association saw the Ochopee Post Office painted pink for Breast Cancer Awareness month she approached Manager of Postal Operations Richard Barber with a request.\u00a0 The American Heart Association was searching for local landmarks in the Collier county community to trim in red lights for American Heart Month.<\/p>\n<p>The Ochopee Post Office, smallest post office in the country, is a popular tourist attraction in addition to being a local landmark.\u00a0 On any given day, buses full of tourists stop to purchase stamps, take photos and obtain the collectible Ochopee postmark.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>February marks American Heart Month, a nationwide initiative to raise awareness in the effort to combat heart disease and educate communities on prevention and treatment options. Heart-related illness is still the leading cause of death in the United States, with one in every three deaths resulting from heart disease or stroke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First there was pink and now RED!\u00a0 When a representative from the American Heart Association saw the Ochopee Post Office painted pink for Breast Cancer Awareness month she approached Manager&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}