{"id":165,"date":"2006-09-19T10:04:07","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T10:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/?p=165"},"modified":"2015-07-21T11:12:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T10:12:08","slug":"you-wanna-milk-me-focker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"You Wanna Milk Me, Focker?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eek.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just been called by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthonynolan.org.uk\/\">Anthony Nolan Trust<\/a>, a UK bone marrow donor register, as I am a potential match for someone in need of a transplant. I announce this in a heady cloud of trepidation and the feeling that I could be saving someone&#8217;s life if my samples are a good enough match.<\/p>\n<p>I signed up in June or so, when a colleague in need of a transplant himself organised a mass attendance at a testing session. In short, I&#8217;m really nervous as I&#8217;m pretty squeamish but how can you turn down the opportunity to save someone&#8217;s life?<\/p>\n<p>There is a real shortage of blood, bone marrow (particularly male and ethnic minorities) and organ donors in the UK and I urge you to actively go out and give blood and bone marrow samples and sign up for a donor card. You could be saving somebody&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eek. I&#8217;ve just been called by the Anthony Nolan Trust, a UK bone marrow donor register, as I am a potential match for someone in need of a transplant. I announce this in a heady cloud of trepidation and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/?p=165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}