{"id":8278,"date":"2011-08-08T17:34:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T00:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/puget-sound-blood-center-blood-drive-aug-16-blood-donations-needed\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T15:10:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T22:10:36","slug":"puget-sound-blood-center-blood-drive-aug-16-blood-donations-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/puget-sound-blood-center-blood-drive-aug-16-blood-donations-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Puget Sound Blood Center blood drive Aug. 16 | Blood donations needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The Puget Sound Blood Center has scheduled a blood drive from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday Aug. 16 at First Christian Church of Kent in the Eckfeldt Hall, 11717 SE 240th Street, Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In summer the blood center experiences a 20 percent decline in blood collections due to high schools being closed and vacations.\u00a0 The center also experience a 20 percent increase in the demand for blood because people are more active and there are more accidents.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Less supply, more demand means the blood center needs help and support.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Walk-in donors are welcome.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><small><a style=\"color: #0000ff;text-align: left\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=embed&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=11717+SE+240th+Street,+Kent&amp;aq=&amp;sll=47.159274,-121.657878&amp;sspn=0.040094,0.066004&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=11717+SE+240th+St,+Kent,+Washington+98030&amp;z=14&amp;iwloc=A\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Puget Sound Blood Center has scheduled a blood drive from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday Aug. 16 at First Christian Church of Kent in the Eckfeldt Hall, 11717 SE 240th Street, Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8278"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}