{"id":58176,"date":"2019-05-29T08:19:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T08:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58176"},"modified":"2019-05-29T08:19:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T08:19:38","slug":"this-dad-has-been-putting-up-signs-with-words-of-encouragement-around-town-to-lower-suicide-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/05\/29\/this-dad-has-been-putting-up-signs-with-words-of-encouragement-around-town-to-lower-suicide-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"This dad has been putting up signs with words of encouragement around town to lower suicide rates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Colby Wallace, a 42-year-old father from Seattle, recently heard about the suicides of four high school students in his county. This prompted him to launch the &#8220;You Matter&#8221; campaign under which he has been putting up signs with words of encouragement along the sidewalks near his daughters&#8217; elementary school in Queen Anne, Seattle.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve learned that you never know who is struggling,&#8221; Wallace said. &#8220;Some people seem like they have it together but need to hear this.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The signs read: &#8216;You&#8217;re Worthy of Love,&#8217; &#8216;Don&#8217;t Give Up,&#8217; &#8216;You Matter,&#8217; and &#8216;Your Mistakes Don&#8217;t Define You.&#8217; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wallace simply hopes his message will become contagious and it appears to be working. Neighbors have started donating money to Wallace for him to order more signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3333\/Dad-Posts-Encouraging-Signs-Around-Town-To-Lower-Suicide-Rates (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3333\/Dad-Posts-Encouraging-Signs-Around-Town-To-Lower-Suicide-Rates\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3333\/Dad-Posts-Encouraging-Signs-Around-Town-To-Lower-Suicide-Rates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colby Wallace, a 42-year-old father from Seattle, recently heard about the suicides of four high school students in his county. This prompted him to launch the &#8220;You Matter&#8221; campaign under which he has been putting up signs with words of encouragement along the sidewalks near his daughters&#8217; elementary school in Queen Anne, Seattle. &#8220;I&#8217;ve learned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}