{"id":188759,"date":"2010-08-02T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/02\/you-win-a-brand-new-car-or-a-spiff-horse-drawn-carriage\/"},"modified":"2010-08-02T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T01:11:00","slug":"you-win-a-brand-new-car-or-a-spiff-horse-drawn-carriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/02\/you-win-a-brand-new-car-or-a-spiff-horse-drawn-carriage\/","title":{"rendered":"You Win a Brand New Car!  Or a Spiff Horse Drawn Carriage!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They are having a blood drive in Ohio, where donating blood enters you into a competition for a brand new car, or, if you so choose, you can win <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/tipoff\/index.ssf\/2010\/08\/donate_blood_win_a_car_unless.html\">a brand new custom made horse-drawn buggy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>During the traditionally slow summer months for blood donation, the Northern Ohio Blood Services Region of the American Red Cross offers an incentive: Donate a pint, get a chance to win a car.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a tried and true promotion. From charity golfers to high school boosters to game show contestants, who wouldn&#8217;t want to drive home in a brand \u2026 new \u2026 car!<\/p>\n<p>How about a culture that shuns such modern contrivances. Say, the Amish.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out Amish people are faithful blood donors in this district, which encompasses Geauga, Holmes and Tuscarawas counties \u2013 all centers of Amish population.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Cross doesn&#8217;t want to forget them, said spokeswoman Christy Chapman. So in addition to the car, donors can win a brand&#8230;new&#8230;buggy!<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obviously, this is a sensible and humane way to encourage blood donations by accommodating the needs of a supportive community, but I also find it a hoot.<\/p>\n<p>What can I say, I&#8217;m not a good person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are having a blood drive in Ohio, where donating blood enters you into a competition for a brand new car, or, if you so choose, you can win a brand new custom made horse-drawn buggy: During the traditionally slow summer months for blood donation, the Northern Ohio Blood Services Region of the American Red &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1100,1046,1021,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-funny","category-healthcare","category-religion","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}