{"id":411,"date":"2018-02-21T19:51:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T00:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/?p=411"},"modified":"2018-02-21T19:51:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T00:51:36","slug":"instagram-post-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/uncategorized\/instagram-post-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Post #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Image-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-412\" src=\"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Image-1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Image-1-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Image-1-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Image-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On May 21st, 1990, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, aka ACT UP, led a \u201cdie-in\u201d as part of their Storm the NIH demonstration.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>By lying on the ground, protestors provided a powerful visual representation of the over 120,000 lives that had already been lost to AIDS.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Organizers also sounded horns five times each hour to signify that one person was dying of AIDS every 12 minutes in the U.S.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>ACT UP demanded that the government take action to combat the AIDS crisis.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They pleaded for the NIH and the FDA to conduct and authorize more research on treatments, and urged them to make medications available to patients throughout the country.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>After years of inaction under the Reagan administration, the government finally began to take measures to combat AIDS.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Many Americans today maintain that Reagan was responsible for the deaths of thousands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It is estimated that over 700,000 Americans have died from AIDS-related illness since the beginning of the epidemic in 1981.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Image courtesy of the NIH History Office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>#lgbtqexperiencesusa<\/p>\n<p>-RF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 21st, 1990, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, aka ACT UP, led a \u201cdie-in\u201d as part of their Storm the NIH demonstration.\u00a0 By lying on the ground, protestors provided a powerful visual representation of the over 120,000 lives that had already been lost to AIDS.\u00a0 Organizers also sounded horns five times each hour &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/uncategorized\/instagram-post-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Instagram Post #3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}