{"id":721,"date":"2019-09-04T01:13:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T01:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=721"},"modified":"2019-09-16T14:59:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T14:59:12","slug":"a-parking-garage-had-6-suicides-in-4-years-signs-on-the-walls-are-trying-to-prevent-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2019\/09\/04\/a-parking-garage-had-6-suicides-in-4-years-signs-on-the-walls-are-trying-to-prevent-more\/","title":{"rendered":"A parking garage had 6 suicides in 4 years. Signs on the walls are trying to prevent more."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by MARISA IATI, <em>Washington Post<\/em>, AUGUST 26, 2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2019\/08\/26\/parking-garage-had-suicides-years-signs-walls-are-trying-prevent-more\/?noredirect=on\">A parking garage had 6 suicides in 4 years. Signs on the walls are trying to prevent more.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article not only brought into our attention the issue of parking garage suicide, but also proposed a way to help ease the current condition as much as possible. Fonda Bryant, a mental health activist in Charlotte, N.C. had been attempting to put up signs and posters in parking garages in hope to better prevent suicides. As Bryant stated in the article &#8220;&#8230;she knows some people might criticize her signs as addressing only a problem\u2019s symptoms and not its root causes, but she said prevention efforts have to start somewhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I agree strongly with Bryant here. I think when dealing with a problem as complex as suicide, there is no singular solution that perfectly solves the problem; sometimes identifying and addressing the symptoms is exactly what&#8217;s needed for now, as Bryant puts it, &#8220;&#8230;prevention efforts have to start somewhere.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by MARISA IATI, Washington Post, AUGUST 26, 2019 A parking garage had 6 suicides in 4 years. Signs on the walls are trying to prevent more. This article not only brought into our attention the issue of parking garage suicide, but also proposed a way to help ease the current condition as much as possible. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-focus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}