{"id":5756,"date":"2025-10-03T10:14:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websoftcreators.com\/swim\/?p=5756"},"modified":"2025-10-03T10:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:16:14","slug":"world-environment-day-2021-our-love-to-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websoftcreators.com\/swim\/world-environment-day-2021-our-love-to-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"World Environment Day 2021 \u2013 Our love to Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5756\" class=\"elementor elementor-5756\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-be17d20 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"be17d20\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23fa6ca1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"23fa6ca1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>While we embrace the green this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldenvironmentday.global\/\">World Environment Day<\/a>, let\u2019s give a special hug to the blue as well. Water, after all, comprises 70% of the planet.\u00a0 Engaging with water (and what better way than swimming) is the best way we can acknowledge, appreciate and respect this vital resource.<br \/>This is of even more importance in these pandemic times.<\/p><p>Amidst all our current obsession with cleanliness, hygiene and safety, every single-use plastic product that we trash \u2013\u00a0 from masks and gloves and PPE suits, to plastic food containers and cutlery, to bubble wrap leftovers from our online shopping \u2013 threatens to make its way from our dustbins to our water bodies. And if it does, the litter will stay for at least 450 years before it disintegrates.<br \/>Our wish for Environment Day is to have everyone engage more, commit more and protect more of our precious water bodies.<\/p><p class=\"text-align-center\">This is our moment.<\/p><p>We cannot turn back time. But we can SAY YES TO SWIMMING so that we can engage with our lakes, rivers, seas and oceans to give them their life back.\u00a0 We are the generation that can make peace with nature.<\/p><p>Let\u2019s get active, not anxious. Let\u2019s be bold, not timid.<\/p><p>Join\u00a0<a title=\"UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration\" href=\"https:\/\/www.decadeonrestoration.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-kmt=\"1\">#GenerationRestoration<\/a><\/p><p>Reference Links<\/p><p>https:\/\/www.ladbible.com\/news\/weird-man-walks-across-a-river-due-to-the-amount-of-rubbish-accumulated-20201110<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we embrace the green this World Environment Day, let\u2019s give a special hug to the blue as well. Water, after all, comprises 70% of the planet.\u00a0 Engaging with water (and what better way than swimming) is the best way we can acknowledge, appreciate and respect this vital resource.This is of even more importance in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-5756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-world-environment-day","th-blog blog-single has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websoftcreators.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websoftcreators.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websoftcreators.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websoftcreators.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websoftcreators.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5756"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/websoftcreators.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5765,"href":"https:\/\/websoftcreators.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions\/5765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websoftcreators.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websoftcreators.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websoftcreators.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websoftcreators.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}