{"id":1460,"date":"2021-03-25T09:25:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T09:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2021-03-25T09:28:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T09:28:52","slug":"purple-day-epilepsy-awareness-day-26th-march-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/2021\/03\/25\/purple-day-epilepsy-awareness-day-26th-march-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Day &#8211; Epilepsy Awareness Day &#8211; 26th March 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What is Purple Day?<\/h2>\n<p>The 26th March is Purple day, a time to get people talking about epilepsy, raise awareness of the condition and raise vital funds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"o-splash__hgroup hgroup\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/epilepsysociety.org.uk\/get-involved\/purpleday\">Purple day &#8211; 26 March 2021 | Epilepsy Society<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"o-splash__title\">What is epilepsy?<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o-splash__text\">\n<p>Epilepsy is not just one condition, but a group of many different &#8216;epilepsies&#8217; with one thing in common: a tendency to have seizures that start in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about epilepsy, it&#8217;s causes, symptoms and treatments please see the following links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/epilepsysociety.org.uk\/about-epilepsy\/what-epilepsy\">What is epilepsy? | Epilepsy Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.org.uk\/\">Epilepsy Action | Epilepsy information and advice<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/files\/2021\/03\/Did-You-Know-Facts-About-Epilepsy.pdf\">Did You Know &#8211; Facts About Epilepsy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/files\/2021\/03\/Diet-Nutrition.pdf\">Diet and Nutrition To Keep Healthy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Epilepsy Society also have a huge range of free downloadable resources looking at everything from carers, surgery, alternative therapies, etc. They can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/epilepsysociety.org.uk\/shop\/epilepsy-information\/downloadable-factsheets\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Purple Day? The 26th March is Purple day, a time to get people talking about epilepsy, raise awareness of the condition and raise vital funds. Purple day &#8211; 26 March 2021 | Epilepsy Society What is epilepsy? Epilepsy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/2021\/03\/25\/purple-day-epilepsy-awareness-day-26th-march-2021\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68830,"featured_media":1466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}