{"id":1057,"date":"2011-06-30T20:55:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T03:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2011-06-30T20:56:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T03:56:28","slug":"so-youre-going-to-be-a-stem-cell-donor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/30\/so-youre-going-to-be-a-stem-cell-donor\/","title":{"rendered":"So you&#8217;re going to be a stem cell donor &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1055\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1055\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_20110524_180818-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"anthony at mervyn&#039;s after receiving unrelated good news\" title=\"good things do happen\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_20110524_180818-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_20110524_180818-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_20110524_180818.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; or, actually, <em>I&#8217;m<\/em> going to be a stem cell donor.<\/p>\n<p>Only 1 in 20,000 actually match, so this is pretty lucky. If all goes well with the physical and blood tests, I&#8217;ll be helping out someone who&#8217;s got few remaining options. <\/p>\n<p>Good things do happen.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n<p>P.S. No grief, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Marrow_Donor_Program\">only 1 in 20,000 match<\/a>. So check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethematch.org\">Be The Match dot org<\/a> and consider getting your cheek swabbed. Somewhere out there someone may be depending on you &#8211; so no pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; or, actually, I&#8217;m going to be a stem cell donor. Only 1 in 20,000 actually match, so this is pretty lucky. If all goes well with the physical and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,74,12,5],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hard-science","tag-miracle-workers","tag-this-guy-called-jesus","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}