{"id":288389,"date":"2026-05-29T02:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288389\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T02:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:14:07","slug":"oneblood-issues-appeal-for-blood-donations-all-types-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288389\/","title":{"rendered":"OneBlood issues appeal for blood donations; all types needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OneBlood, the not-for-profit blood center serving Florida, North Carolina and much of the southeastern United States is issuing an urgent appeal to the community for blood donations.<\/p>\n<p>All blood types are needed. Additionally, there is an increased need for O negative and O positive blood and platelet donations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn an instant any one of us can find ourselves on the receiving end of a blood transfusion,\u201d said Susan Forbes, senior vice president of corporate communications and public relations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day patients in local hospitals depend on blood donors to live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To find a OneBlood donor center or Big Red Bus blood drive and to make an appointment, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/oneblood.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">oneblood.org<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To host a blood drive with the Big Red Bus visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneblood.org\/get-involved\/host-a-blood-drive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">oneblood.org\/get-involved\/host-a-blood-drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OneBlood, the not-for-profit blood center serving Florida, North Carolina and much of the southeastern United States is issuing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-288389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}