{"id":62,"date":"2007-11-14T18:42:26","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T23:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/14\/cnn-heroes\/"},"modified":"2007-11-15T10:18:57","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T15:18:57","slug":"cnn-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/14\/cnn-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNN is having a final round of voting to choose a “hero” to feature onair. One of them came to my attention through the usual random degrees (as a matter of fact, he’s my uncle’s colleague’s brother’s grandson) – Pat Pedraja. He’s a 12 year old boy fighting leukemia who started Driving for Donors<\/a>, which goes around America having drives to register people as bone marrow donors. So far he’s won the Young Wonder category of CNN Heroes but it’d be a great help if you could go and vote for him<\/a> so he can be the final winner. There’s a video there and it’s really a great story. It inspired me to go ahead and register as a bone marrow donor<\/a>. All you have to do is a cheek swab. The kit costs $52 for all the materials and processing so they’re also looking for donations to sponsor more registrations. Once you’re registered you’re on the list until your 61st birthday. Minorities are especially needed since people tend to find a match within their own ethnicity and not many minorities are currently registered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CNN is having a final round of voting to choose a “hero” to feature onair. One of them came to my attention through the usual random degrees (as a matter of fact, he’s my uncle’s colleague’s brother’s grandson) – Pat Pedraja. He’s a 12 year old boy fighting leukemia who started Driving for Donors, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}