{"id":1666,"date":"2007-08-03T18:58:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T23:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2007\/08\/03\/scarcity-of-blood-donors\/"},"modified":"2007-08-03T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T23:58:08","slug":"scarcity-of-blood-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2007\/08\/03\/scarcity-of-blood-donors\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarcity of Blood Donors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was shocked the other day to read the other day that only 38% of Americans could give blood if they wanted to. The CBS article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2007\/08\/01\/health\/webmd\/main3124486.shtml\">Number Of Americans Eligible To Give Blood Overestimated By 60 Percent<\/a>&nbsp; explains why.&nbsp; When I started donating in college, I think they asked potential donors about seven questions, including about how the donor was feeling that day.&nbsp; I think there were several dozen questions that I answered to today before I donated.&nbsp; Without working at a place with a regular visit by a blood bank, I hadn&#8217;t donated in four or five years.&nbsp; With my new job, I now drive past a hospital with a blood bank four days a week, so I decided to schedule an appointment there.&nbsp; I am pleased to report that the juice and chocolate chip cookies were very good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was shocked the other day to read the other day that only 38% of Americans could give blood if they wanted to. The CBS article Number Of Americans Eligible To Give Blood Overestimated By 60 Percent&nbsp; explains why.&nbsp; When I started donating in college, I think they asked potential donors about seven questions, including &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2007\/08\/03\/scarcity-of-blood-donors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scarcity of Blood Donors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publicservice","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-qS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}