{"id":8772,"date":"2011-11-01T11:36:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T16:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=8772"},"modified":"2017-11-12T02:13:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T21:13:33","slug":"movember-time-to-grow-a-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/movember-time-to-grow-a-mo\/","title":{"rendered":"Movember."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8773\" title=\"Robert_L_Peters_Movember\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Robert_L_Peters_Movember.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"551\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve sported a moustache\u2026 so this should be fun. <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.movember.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Movember<\/a> is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men\u2019s faces, in Canada and around the world, during the month of November.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>With their \u201cMo\u2019s,\u201d these men raise vital funds and awareness for men&#8217;s health, specifically prostate cancer. On Movember 1st, guys register at Movember.com with a clean-shaven face. For the rest of the month, these selfless and generous men, known as Mo Bros, groom, trim and wax their way into the annals of fine moustachery. Supported by the women in their lives, Mo Sistas, Movember Mo Bros raise funds by seeking out sponsorship for their Mo-growing efforts. Mo Bros effectively become walking, talking billboards for the 30 days of November. Through their actions and words, they raise awareness by prompting private and public conversation around the often ignored issue of men\u2019s health. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>At the end of the month, Mo Bros and Mo Sistas celebrate their gallantry and valor by either throwing their own Movember party or attending one of the infamous Gala Part\u00e9s held around the world by Movember, for Movember.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, Canada It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve sported a moustache\u2026 so this should be fun. Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men\u2019s faces, in Canada and around the world, during the month of November. With their \u201cMo\u2019s,\u201d these men raise vital funds and awareness for men&#8217;s health, specifically prostate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15472,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772\/revisions\/15472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}