{"id":27803,"date":"2017-12-18T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=27803"},"modified":"2017-12-18T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T10:10:00","slug":"giving-blood-why-should-you-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/uncategorised\/giving-blood-why-should-you-do-it","title":{"rendered":"Giving Blood. Why should you do it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the world population increases there has never been a more important time to make sure that you are regularly donating blood. Yet an alarming number of us still don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A major reason for this is that many people remain unaware of the facts and just how important giving blood is. I created this infographic and explainer video to make things a little easier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27814\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27814\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27814\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/blood-infographic-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/blood-infographic-1.png 604w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/blood-infographic-1-230x300.png 230w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/blood-infographic-1-500x653.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27814\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/blood-infographic-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/blood-infographic-1.png 604w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/blood-infographic-1-230x300.png 230w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/blood-infographic-1-500x653.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/noscript> Giving blood. The facts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The facts on blood donation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-27803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Giving Blood. 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