{"id":141,"date":"2008-07-31T12:50:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T20:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/durcan.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/31\/donated-blood-for-first-time\/"},"modified":"2008-07-31T12:50:49","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T20:50:49","slug":"donated-blood-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"Donated blood for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/declan12\/2720608042\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3108\/2720608042_768b8a12b3_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/declan12\/2720608042\/\">Donating blood for first time<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/declan12\/\">Declan!<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>When I was younger I was afraid of only 2 things.  Spiders and Needles.   So I never gave blood, and would run like a little girl at the site of a spider.   Thankfully I&#8217;ve overcome these fears.  I hate bugs, and spiders eat bugs.  That&#8217;s a good thing.  <\/p>\n<p>As for needles, I think I was partially scared of them because I associated them with getting sick, drug use, and disease.   I think too many years in Catholic school had me brain washed.<\/p>\n<p>Well the past few years when I went to give blood at various blood drives, for some bizarre reason I was turned away each time.  Each time they had reached their capacity.  Maybe more people in the NY area give blood or something.<\/p>\n<p>So today I finally paid some of my debt to society.  They tell me I saved 3 people today so I feel good.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donating blood for first time Originally uploaded by Declan! When I was younger I was afraid of only 2 things. Spiders and Needles. So I never gave blood, and would run like a little girl at the site of a spider. Thankfully I&#8217;ve overcome these fears. I hate bugs, and spiders eat bugs. That&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}