{"id":354,"date":"2007-09-12T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zeliff.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/12\/129-revision\/"},"modified":"2018-02-24T21:17:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T21:17:59","slug":"129-revision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeliff.net\/blog\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Who do you meet at a blood drive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped after work to make my regular blood donation (and get my coupon for two free tacos). Next to me is a guy that seems familiar, but it is not until I see his name that I recognize him. I went to elementary\/high school with him.  I turn around and give him my name and we talk for a moment before he moves to the next station. I then have one of the ladies waiting tell me her name and she also went to school with me. After I catch up with the guy, he tells me that they are married and that another classmate is also at the blood drive. Once I hit the &#8220;cantina&#8221; after donating, I spend most of the time catching up with my three classmates. Who do you meet at a blood drive? Twenty-three years after graduating high school, I run into three classmates who also donated blood. They stayed here in my hometown, while I moved away for 18 years and then came back.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-4\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"354\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"cookie\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"far fa-smile\"><\/i>\r\n                    <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped after work to make my regular blood donation (and get my coupon for two free tacos). Next to me is a guy that seems familiar, but it is not until I see his name that I recognize him. I went to elementary\/high school with him. I turn around and give him my name &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zeliff.net\/blog\/?p=354\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who do you meet at a blood drive?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[1],"tags":[23,28,35],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-memories","tag-news","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeliff.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeliff.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeliff.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeliff.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeliff.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zeliff.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/zeliff.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeliff.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeliff.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeliff.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}