{"id":2631,"date":"2009-05-17T09:47:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T13:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2009-05-17T09:47:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T13:47:22","slug":"be-the-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/17\/be-the-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Be the Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received a letter yesterday that reminded me that I&#8217;ve been a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marrow.org\/index.html\">National Marrow Donor Program<\/a> Registry since 1997. <\/p>\n<p>Given my ancestry and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marrow.org\/HELP\/Recruit_Donors\/Need_for_Donors\/index.html#basics\">the type of people that typically need bone marrow transplants<\/a>, it is unlikely that I will ever be called to give. But if they call, I&#8217;m ready and willing. <\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t take much work to become a donor. Won&#8217;t you consider being on the National Marrow Donor Program&#8217;s list of potential donors? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marrow.org\/JOIN\/index.html?src=Join\">Join now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marrow.org\/images\/replacements\/repl-bethematch.gif\" title=\"Be The Match logo\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"246\" height=\"40\" \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received a letter yesterday that reminded me that I&#8217;ve been a member of the National Marrow Donor Program Registry since 1997. Given my ancestry and the type of people that typically need bone marrow transplants, it is unlikely that I will ever be called to give. But if they call, I&#8217;m ready and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2634,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions\/2634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}