
{"id":18617,"date":"2011-06-02T10:40:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=18617"},"modified":"2011-06-02T10:46:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:46:36","slug":"letter-blood-donations-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/06\/02\/letter-blood-donations-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Blood donations needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, start the summer by giving the gift of life to someone in need in our area. Faculty, staff, students and members of the community are all invited to the 23rd annual Carolina Blood Drive with the American Red Cross, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 7 in the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill. Donors will have access to free parking by the Dean Dome.\u00c2\u00a0The drive goal is 1,000 units.<br \/>\nThe summer is a tough time for hospitals and patients. Many of us are extremely busy, and blood donations typically decrease. But the demand for blood at health facilities in our region does not.<br \/>\nWalk-ins will be welcome, but appointments are recommended.\u00c2\u00a0To make an appointment for the drive or for more information, visit www.unc.edu\/blood or call 96BLOOD (962-5663).<br \/>\nBesides the warm feeling of a good deed done, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get free food donated by generous local merchants afterwards, a free T-shirt and a chance to win door prizes.\u00c2\u00a0Holden and I hope you will join us for this important event.<br \/>\nPatti Thorp<br \/>\n<em>First Lady, UNC<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, start the summer by giving the gift of life to someone in need in our area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18618,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18617\/revisions\/18618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}