{"id":339740,"date":"2017-05-01T21:37:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T13:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/05\/01\/macrumors-2017-blood-drive\/"},"modified":"2017-05-01T21:37:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T13:37:30","slug":"macrumors-2017-blood-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/macrumors-2017-blood-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"MacRumors 2017 Blood Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[unable to retrieve full-text content]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>MacRumors<\/em> is pleased to announce the <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/macrumors-2017-blood-drive.2043871\/\">Eighth Annual MacRumors Blood Drive<\/a>, throughout the month of May 2017. Our goal is to save lives by increasing the number of life-saving blood and platelet donations. While most blood drives are specific to a geographic location, our blood drive is online and worldwide. <em>MacRumors<\/em> routinely reports on Apple&#8217;s support for charity, <a href=\"https:\/\/macrumors.zendesk.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/202084918-Apple-Support-for-Charity\">as summarized in our Help Center<\/a>, and the MacRumors Blood Drive is our own community effort.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 7 years, the MacRumors Blood Drives have recorded donations of 381 units of blood, platelets, and plasma, and noted new signups for the organ donor and bone marrow registries. We&#8217;ve heard from many forum members whose lives were affected by blood, platelet, or bone marrow donations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/05\/blood_drive_2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-562789\" \/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How to participate<\/h2>\n<p>\n1. If you are eligible, <strong>schedule a blood or platelet donation<\/strong> (see <a href=\"https:\/\/macrumors.zendesk.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/201729417-Blood-and-Platelet-Donation-\">FAQ<\/a>), in May if possible, at any donation center near you. Register for the bone marrow registry in your country and\/or register as an organ donor in your state, province, or country (see <a href=\"https:\/\/macrumors.zendesk.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/201771053-Organ-Tissue-and-Bone-Marrow-Donation\">FAQ<\/a>). Then post in the <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/macrumors-2017-blood-drive.2043871\/\">MacRumors 2017 Blood Drive!<\/a> thread to tell us about it and to accept our thanks.<\/p>\n<p>2. If you aren&#8217;t eligible to donate blood for reasons of health, age, height\/weight, a recent donation, or because you are deferred as a donor, please <strong>encourage someone else to make a donation<\/strong>, and let us know. If they donate, you belong on our Honor Roll! If you are a sexually active gay man deferred from donating, join our <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/blood-donor-eligibility.1577101\/\">Blood donor eligibility<\/a> discussion, with its debate over deferrals based on sexual orientation but not on monogamy.<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>Share our message<\/strong> and help this cause by convincing friends and relatives to participate as well. The <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/macrumors-2017-blood-drive.2043871\/#post-24540042\">Honor Roll<\/a> lists this year&#8217;s donors. Please congratulate them for their altruistic acts to help strangers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/05\/first_blood_drive_donor_2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"426\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-562791\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkback\">Tag: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/macrumors-blood-drive\/\">MacRumors blood drive<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/macrumors-2017-blood-drive.2043896\/\">Discuss this article<\/a> in our forums<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=yeZ8b9-cKZU:rf29AsQylMM:6W8y8wAjSf4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=6W8y8wAjSf4\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=yeZ8b9-cKZU:rf29AsQylMM:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MacRumors-All\/~4\/yeZ8b9-cKZU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-339740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}