{"id":976629,"date":"2022-02-04T18:26:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T18:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/04\/5-common-myths-about-blood-donation-that-just-arent-true\/"},"modified":"2022-02-04T18:26:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T18:26:37","slug":"5-common-myths-about-blood-donation-that-just-arent-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/04\/5-common-myths-about-blood-donation-that-just-arent-true\/","title":{"rendered":"5 common myths about blood donation that just aren\u2019t true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This festive season you will probably see urgent calls to donate blood. People with conditions like cancer, leukaemia, haemophilia and bleeding disorders always need blood components. \u201cOnly 1% of the South African population are regular blood donors, and with blood collection having decreased significantly over the past two years because of various lockdown regulations, the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This festive season you will probably see urgent calls to donate blood. People with conditions like cancer, leukaemia, haemophilia and bleeding disorders always need blood components. \u201cOnly 1% of the South African population are regular blood donors, and with blood collection having decreased significantly over the past two years because of various lockdown regulations, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}