{"id":1758,"date":"2022-09-30T10:23:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T14:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:04:59","slug":"why-is-september-30th-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/2022\/why-is-september-30th-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is September 30th Important?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Why is September 30th Important?\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>September 30th, commonly known as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/orange-shirt-day\/\">Orange Shirt Day<\/a>&nbsp;is an important day which recognizes the story of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nctr.ca\/memorial\/national-student-memorial\/memorial-book\/\">residential school<\/a>&nbsp;survivor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.orangeshirtday.org\/phyllis-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phyllis Webstad<\/a>, which sparked a national movement to recognize the experiences of survivors of residential and day schools. On&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/orange-shirt-day\/\">Orange Shirt Day<\/a>, held annually on September 30, people from all over the country are encouraged to take time to meaningfully reflect on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nctr.ca\/records\/reports\/\">truth and reconciliation<\/a>&nbsp;in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.queerevents.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/queer-content\/posts\/banners\/QE-Banner-Everychildmatters.png\" alt=\"Every Child Matters | QueerEvents.ca\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about Carleton University\u2019s commitment to this, please visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/orange-shirt-day\/\">this page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about what you can do, please visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/orange-shirt-day-ally\/\">this page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 30th, commonly known as&nbsp;Orange Shirt Day&nbsp;is an important day which recognizes the story of&nbsp;residential school&nbsp;survivor&nbsp;Phyllis Webstad, which sparked a national movement to recognize the experiences of survivors of residential and day schools. On&nbsp;Orange Shirt Day, held annually on September 30, people from all over the country are encouraged to take time to meaningfully reflect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}