{"id":57848,"date":"2012-04-03T08:05:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T12:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=57848"},"modified":"2012-04-05T15:23:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T19:23:37","slug":"light-it-up-blue-puts-spotlight-on-autism-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/04\/light-it-up-blue-puts-spotlight-on-autism-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Light It Up Blue&#8217; Puts Spotlight On Autism Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_57846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57846\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/WilburCrossAutism120402a033.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57846    img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/WilburCrossAutism120402a033.jpg\" alt=\"Each year on April 2, Autism Speaks celebrates World Autism Awareness Day by 'lighting it up blue' in an effort to increase awareness about autism.  Joining other landmarks throughout the world, including the Empire State Building in New York City, UConn's Wilbur Cross Building was bathed in blue light in observation of the event.  (Max Sinton '15 (CANR)\/UConn Photo)\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/WilburCrossAutism120402a033.jpg 630w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/WilburCrossAutism120402a033-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/WilburCrossAutism120402a033-150x100.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 630px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 630\/420;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Each year on April 2, Autism Speaks celebrates World Autism Awareness Day by &#039;lighting it up blue&#039; in an effort to increase awareness about autism.  Joining other landmarks throughout the world, including the Empire State Building in New York City, UConn&#039;s Wilbur Cross Building was bathed in blue light in observation of the event.  (Max Sinton &#039;15 (CANR)\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wilbur Cross Building joined other landmarks around the world on April 2 in &#8216;lighting it up blue&#8217; to promote awareness of autism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":57846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[56],"class_list":["post-57848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 20:37:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57848"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58049,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57848\/revisions\/58049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/57846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57848"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=57848"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=57848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}