{"id":65,"date":"2006-04-05T21:33:40","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T02:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2006-04-05T21:33:40","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T02:33:40","slug":"turned-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/05\/turned-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Turned down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the region has enough blood, since they&#8217;re turning down people who didn&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givelife.org\/index_flash.cfm\">make an appointment<\/a> to donate blood during the blood drive on campus today. But they said I could go over to the Red Cross facility (a couple of miles from campus). &#8220;They usually can handle walk-ins,&#8221; I was told.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure it would be more convenient for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.org\/donate\/give\/\">Red Cross<\/a> to know exactly how many people will come in.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also sure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.com\/\">Wal*Mart<\/a> would like to know how many blue widgets they&#8217;ll sell tomorrow. But they manage to get along without perfect knowledge. And since selling blue widgets isn&#8217;t really all that important compared to saving lives, which organization do you suppose would be more capable of improvising, adapting, and overcoming life&#8217;s vicissitudes?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like they were giving the stuff away. Back <a href=\"http:\/\/www.svch.net\/bloodless\/press_blood_supply.asp\">in 2002 it cost<\/a> $215\/pint. (Or $215 for the blood and another $465 to process it; I can&#8217;t make sense of the press release, due not to its writer but its subject matter, i.e., medical costs are involved.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the region has enough blood, since they&#8217;re turning down people who didn&#8217;t make an appointment to donate blood during the blood drive on campus today. But they said I could go over to the Red Cross facility (a couple of miles from campus). &#8220;They usually can handle walk-ins,&#8221; I was told. I&#8217;m sure it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-13","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}