{"id":5425,"date":"2020-08-07T09:07:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T09:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5425"},"modified":"2020-08-07T09:19:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T09:19:25","slug":"social-distancing-beacons-on-bbc-news-at-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/social-distancing-beacons-on-bbc-news-at-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Distancing Beacons on BBC News at Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The BBC had <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m000ljpq\" target=\"_blank\">a piece<\/a> last night on the use of social distancing beacons at Florence Cathedral in Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m000ljpq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/bbcsocialdistancing-1024x577.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/bbcsocialdistancing-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/bbcsocialdistancing-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/bbcsocialdistancing-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/bbcsocialdistancing-1200x677.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/bbcsocialdistancing.png 1206w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The beacons are worn by visitors and vibrate and flash when people get too close to one another. The reporter, Mark Lowen, said that it was the first use of the devices which might be true of that device model but not of social distancing devices in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/SocialDistancingContactTracing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Beacons for Workplace Social Distancing and Contact Tracing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC had a piece last night on the use of social distancing beacons at Florence Cathedral in Italy. The beacons are worn by visitors and vibrate and flash when people get too close to one another. The reporter, Mark Lowen, said that it was the first use of the devices which might be true &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/social-distancing-beacons-on-bbc-news-at-ten\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Social Distancing Beacons on BBC News at Ten&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5425"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5430,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions\/5430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}