{"id":370385,"date":"2026-07-12T17:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370385\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T17:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:43:07","slug":"lubbock-first-responders-prepare-for-battle-of-the-badges-blood-drive-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370385\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock first responders prepare for Battle of the Badges blood drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Vitalant\u2019s annual Battle of the Badges blood drive is kicking off tomorrow. Blood donations are important year round, but collections drop even more during the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lubbock\u2019s first responders are asking you to pick a team and help donate. You can do so at the South Plains Mall between 12:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., from July 13 to Sunday, July 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When you donate, be sure to mention the competition and the department you\u2019re backing to receive a free T-shirt and a gift card for movie tickets and popcorn.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Vitalant\u2019s annual Battle of the Badges blood drive is kicking off tomorrow. Blood donations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[127209,64752,447,440,319,36707,66,168,9759,170,169,3605,223,28357],"class_list":["post-370385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-battle-of-the-badges","tag-blood-donation","tag-community","tag-event","tag-kcbd","tag-kjtv","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-fire-rescue","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-lubbock-police-department","tag-news","tag-south-plains-mall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}