{"id":1456,"date":"2008-05-13T14:30:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T14:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/piggyback-onto-hug-your-kids-day-july-21\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T13:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T13:59:08","slug":"piggyback-onto-hug-your-kids-day-july-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/piggyback-onto-hug-your-kids-day-july-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Piggyback onto &#8216;Hug Your Kids Day&#8217; July 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left\">Publicity Hounds hate it when they create their own day, week or month of the year, and then see other people piggyback onto it for publicity.<\/div>\n<p>Not Michelle Nichols, a former writer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BusinessWeek.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BusinessWeek.com<\/a>, who created National Hug Your Kids Day on July 21.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle is inviting Hounds everywhere to generate publicity for their own companies or organizations by tying into Hug Your Kids Day.\u00a0 Already, she has generated lots of interest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Realtor in Reno had 1,000 pens made that say &#8216;National Hug Your Kids Day, July 21&#8217; with her name, company and phone number,&#8221; Michelle said.\u00a0 &#8220;A non-profit consulting company in Maryland is sponsoring an event.\u00a0 An expert on happy post-divorce families in Red Bluff, California is putting together an event.\u00a0 A luxury toy company may have its mother cat stuffed animal be its &#8216;spokescat&#8217; for the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She asks, however, that the events and other promotions encourage parents to hug their own kids, not other people&#8217;s kids.\u00a0 And she&#8217;ll even send a copy of her new book, &#8220;Hug Your Kids Today!\u00a0 5 Key Lessons for Every Working Parent&#8221; as a thank-you to Hounds who participate.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about her project and\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Hugs@HugYourKidsToday.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email<\/a>\u00a0Michelle.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t have your own day, week or month of the year yet? If not, see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Special Report #45: How to Generate National Publicity from Your Own Holiday (or Day, Week or Month of the Year).&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publicity Hounds hate it when they create their own day, week or month of the year, and then see other people piggyback onto it for publicity. Not Michelle Nichols, a former writer for BusinessWeek.com, who created National Hug Your Kids Day on July 21. Michelle is inviting Hounds everywhere to generate publicity for their own\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/piggyback-onto-hug-your-kids-day-july-21\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":3,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[601,611],"class_list":{"0":"post-1456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-holidays","8":"tag-press-release-topics","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41556,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/41556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}