{"id":15257,"date":"2016-02-09T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=15257"},"modified":"2016-02-08T19:51:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T00:51:24","slug":"donating-blood-february-9-2016-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/donating-blood-february-9-2016-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Donating Blood, February 9, 2016 Daily Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15259\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15259\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15259\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Blood-Donation-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"I donated blood\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Blood-Donation-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Blood-Donation.jpg 717w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I donated blood<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday, Holy Cross hosted an annual blood drive for the Red Cross. I had not planned to attempt to donate blood. However, I had a planning period and noticed that the blood drive did not look busy. So, I volunteered to donate, knowing that I would probably be rejected. I donated blood when I was a senior in high school. Since that time 24 years ago, I have been rejected. My iron count was always too low. I started taking an iron supplement two years ago and it worked! Yesterday, when my blood was tested I was told that my iron count was the lowest acceptable amount. I was accepted!!! Finally, I was able to give my blood away to someone who will need it someday. It is a wonderful feeling to know that I can help others in that way.<\/p>\n<p>Today, consider giving the gift of life and donate your blood. It only took about 45 minutes of my time, one pint of my blood, and I was able to proudly wear a sticker that said, &#8220;Be nice to me. I gave blood today.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can you donate for the good of others? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1099,261,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}