{"id":3750,"date":"2023-12-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2023-12-10T15:08:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T20:08:17","slug":"briggs-and-rutty-why-we-should-declare-a-formal-smallpox-eradication-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/briggs-and-rutty-why-we-should-declare-a-formal-smallpox-eradication-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Briggs and Rutty: Why we should declare a formal \u2018Smallpox Eradication Day\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Dec. 9, 1979, the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication declared its job complete. This marked the end of a scourge that lasted thousands of years and killed more people than all the wars in recorded history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Dec. 9, 1979, the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication declared its job complete. This marked the end of a scourge that lasted thousands of years and killed more people than all the wars in recorded history.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/briggs-and-rutty-why-we-should-declare-a-formal-smallpox-eradication-day\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Briggs and Rutty: Why we should declare a formal \u2018Smallpox Eradication Day\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,387,709,14,708,710,320,15],"class_list":["post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-polio","tag-poliomyelitis","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-smallpox","tag-smallpox-eradication","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3751,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/3751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}