{"id":12767,"date":"2018-05-10T01:28:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T05:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=12767"},"modified":"2018-05-10T02:30:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T06:30:44","slug":"brick-library-to-host-blood-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2018\/05\/brick-library-to-host-blood-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Library to Host Blood Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11314\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/9908517703_4ddb5df3dd_o.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11314\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/9908517703_4ddb5df3dd_o.jpg\" alt=\"Blood drive\/donation (Photo: Alex Juel\/Flickr)\" width=\"565\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/9908517703_4ddb5df3dd_o.jpg 565w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/9908517703_4ddb5df3dd_o-400x287.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blood drive\/donation (Photo: Alex Juel\/Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Brick Branch of the Ocean County Library will sponsor a blood drive in partnership with the American Red Cross on <span data-term=\"goog_625081532\">Wednesday, June 13, 2018, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The blood drive will take place on <span data-term=\"goog_625081533\">Wednesday, June 13, 2018 from 2 pm \u2013 7 pm<\/span> in the meeting room of the Brick Library, 301 Chambers Bridge Road, Brick. Though walk-ins are welcome, library officials say it is best to make an appointment by calling 1-800-733-2767 (1-800-RED CROSS), signing up online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcrossblood.org\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&q=http:\/\/www.redcrossblood.org&source=gmail&ust=1526018462488000&usg=AFQjCNGt045ISchFkv12DQD9Jzy3Nic6EQ\">www.redcrossblood.org<\/a>, or calling the library: 732 477-4513, #4 on menu.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Red Cross, an estimated 38 percent of Americans are eligible to give blood, but of those, less than 10 percent actually donate each year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are healthy and eligible, please come out to donate,\u201d an announcement said. \u201cMost donations take about an hour, so book your appointment, roll up your sleeve and become a part of the lifesaving mission of the Red Cross.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2018\/05\/brick-library-to-host-blood-drive\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brick Branch of the Ocean County Library will sponsor a blood drive in partnership with the American Red Cross on Wednesday, June 13, 2018, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. The blood drive will take place on Wednesday, June 13, 2018 from 2 pm \u2013 7 pm in the meeting room of the Brick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[2989,971,24,532],"class_list":["post-12767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","tag-blood-drive","tag-brick-library","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-ocean-county-library"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/9908517703_4ddb5df3dd_o.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-3jV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}