{"id":10308,"date":"2011-07-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/07\/21\/hindus-to-observe-911-anniversary-with-national-blood-drive\/"},"modified":"2011-07-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T12:00:00","slug":"hindus-to-observe-911-anniversary-with-national-blood-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/07\/21\/hindus-to-observe-911-anniversary-with-national-blood-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindus To Observe 9\/11 Anniversary With National Blood Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiapost.com\/hindus-to-observe-911-anniversary-with-national-blood-drive\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, July 15, 2011 (India Post): Hindu Americans across North America will mark the 10th anniversary of 9\/11 by donating blood. This will be first time ever that such an ambitious project will be held at the many Hindu temples in North America.<\/p>\n<p>This effort is being coordinated by the HMEC (Hindu Mandirs Executive Conference), an apex body of approximately 600 temples in North America. They have set a goal of participation by at least 100 temples and collecting 5,000 units of blood on a single day. Agencies such as the American Red Cross will collect the blood.<\/p>\n<p>According to the US National Institutes of Health, nearly 14 million units of whole blood and red cells are required every year. Some patients of Asian descent require a closer blood match than that provided by the ABO positive\/negative blood typing. For this reason, it is extremely important to increase the number of available blood donors from the Asian communities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW YORK, July 15, 2011 (India Post): Hindu Americans across North America will mark the 10th anniversary of 9\/11,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}