{"id":600,"date":"2015-09-02T12:58:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T12:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=600"},"modified":"2015-09-02T12:58:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T12:58:20","slug":"blood-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"Blood bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em>Primary 1-4 have been learning all about &#8220;our community&#8221; and yesterday they had a visit from the &#8220;Blood bikes&#8221; and learned more about what this charity does in the local community and across the region.\u00a0 Mrs Cameron had invited the charity to come and speak about their work, after her husband made a donation to the cause recently.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em>Rowan in P4 reported &#8220;The whole school got to see where the blood was stored on the motor bike, to allow it to be transported to where\u00a0hospitals need it.\u00a0 David told\u00a0us\u00a0they sometimes have to take blood from an ill person in Stranraer and take to Dumfries to get examined in a lab.\u00a0\u00a0He explained he had between 12-14 hours to reach his destination with blood &#8211; and this could be as far away as London or the Isle of Wight.\u00a0 Blood bike riders do not get paid to do it &#8211; they are all volunteers.\u00a0 David\u00a0that visited\u00a0us with his motor bike was a retired policeman who lives in Dumfries now&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary 1-4 have been learning all about &#8220;our community&#8221; and yesterday they had a visit from the &#8220;Blood bikes&#8221; and learned more about what this charity does in the local community and across the region.\u00a0 Mrs Cameron had invited the charity to come and speak about their work, after her husband made a donation to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=600\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blood bikes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":640,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}