{"id":20843,"date":"2015-09-30T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=20843"},"modified":"2015-09-30T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T15:00:50","slug":"high-heels-to-illustrate-violence-prevention-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=20843","title":{"rendered":"High heels to illustrate violence prevention efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16483\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Walk-A-Mile-2013-_040.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16483\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Walk-A-Mile-2013-_040-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A group who participated in the 2013 Walk A Mile event show off their shoes.  Photo by Dennis Wagner\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Walk-A-Mile-2013-_040-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Walk-A-Mile-2013-_040-555x369.jpg 555w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Walk-A-Mile-2013-_040-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Walk-A-Mile-2013-_040.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group who participated in the 2013 Walk A Mile event show off their shoes. Photo by Dennis Wagner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fort Carson soldiers and UCCS men will trade boots and tennis shoes in exchange for high-heeled pumps Oct. 10 in an effort to draw attention women&#8217;s experiences and sexual assault prevention.<\/p>\n<p>UCCS will host the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event beginning at 10 a.m. Oct. 10 on the West Lawn as a way of improving relationships between men and women and decreasing potential violence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Events such as this demonstrate that men are willing and able to be courageous partners with women in making the world a safer place,&#8221; Ethan Wade, outreach coordinator, Respect on Campus, said. &#8220;Walk a Mile in Her Shoes asks men to literally walk a mile in women&#8217;s high-heeled shoes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>UCCS Respect on Campus, Fort Carson&#8217;s Army Community Services and Pikes Peak Community College are event sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers are encouraging groups to form six to 10 person teams and to sign up early. The first 200 people to register will get a free shirt, backpack and related gear.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Wade, <a href=\"mailto:roc@uccs.edu\">roc@uccs.edu<\/a> or 255-4027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Fort Carson soldiers and UCCS men will trade boots and tennis shoes in exchange for high-heeled pumps Oct. 10 in an effort to draw attention women&#8217;s experiences and sexual assault prevention. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=20843\" title=\"High heels to illustrate violence prevention efforts\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-events","category-upcoming-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Walk-A-Mile-2013-_040-300x200.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-5qb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20845,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843\/revisions\/20845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}