{"id":8395,"date":"2017-10-12T09:01:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T14:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=8395"},"modified":"2017-10-12T13:01:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T18:01:09","slug":"mpa-blood-drive-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2017\/10\/12\/mpa-blood-drive-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MPA Blood Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UpperThe first grade and Upper School Student Council have teamed up to host the MPA Blood Drive as their service project for the year. Not only is it exciting for the students to work with each other across \u00a0divisions, but they are enthusiastic about supporting an important cause.<\/p>\n

The students are having the drive to spread a simple message: giving blood is easy, and it will save lives. Much of today\u2019s medical care depends on having a steady supply of blood provided by donors. The philanthropy of it is that donating blood saves\u00a0lives on a local and global level. Patients in\u00a0need of red blood cells, transfusions for emergency surgeries, and treatment of illnesses such as Leukemia and other cancers all benefit from your irreplaceable donation.<\/p>\n

To support them, please consider offering\u00a0an hour of your time to donate blood on Thursday, October 26. You may sign-up by going online to redcrossblood.org<\/a>. Our sponsor code\/keyword is Mounds Park Academy.\u00a0If you know that you are unable to give blood, please be sure to ask friends or relatives!\u00a0If you have questions about your eligibility to donate please call the Red Cross at 1-800-RED-CROSS (733-2767). The first grade students and Upper School Student Council sincerely appreciate it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first grade and Upper School Student Council have teamed up to host the MPA Blood Drive as their service project for the year. Not only is it exciting for the students to work with each other across \u00a0divisions, but they are enthusiastic about supporting an important cause. The students are having the drive to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,9,25,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school","category-current-families","category-lower-school","category-special-events","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8395"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8429,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions\/8429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}