{"id":3566,"date":"2024-06-14T10:23:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T09:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2024-06-13T12:31:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T11:31:06","slug":"14-june-world-blood-donor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/06\/14\/14-june-world-blood-donor-day\/","title":{"rendered":"14 June World Blood Donor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3567\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/06\/for-cc-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/06\/for-cc-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/06\/for-cc-1-1021x1024.png 1021w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/06\/for-cc-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/06\/for-cc-1-768x770.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/06\/for-cc-1-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/06\/for-cc-1.png 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The theme for World Blood Donor Day 2024 is \u201820 years of celebrating giving: thank you blood donors!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>World Blood Donor Day is celebrated every year by people around the world on June 14. It is celebrated on the birthday anniversary of Karl Landsteiner on June 14, 1868. Landsteiner was awarded the Nobel for his discovery of the ABO blood group system.<\/p>\n<p>Transfusion of blood and blood products helps and save millions of lives every year. It can help patients who suffering from life-threatening<br \/>\nconditions live longer and with higher quality of life\u00a0and supports complex medical and surgical procedures. It also has an essential, life-saving role in maternal and perinatal care.<\/p>\n<p>AB+ editor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme for World Blood Donor Day 2024 is \u201820 years of celebrating giving: thank you blood donors!\u2019 World Blood Donor Day is celebrated every year by people around the world on June 14. It is celebrated on the birthday anniversary of Karl Landsteiner on June 14, 1868. Landsteiner was awarded the Nobel for his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/06\/14\/14-june-world-blood-donor-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;14 June World Blood Donor Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":3568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3570,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions\/3570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}