{"id":3103,"date":"2026-01-18T20:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2026-01-18T20:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:08:25","slug":"gave-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=3103","title":{"rendered":"Gave Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I gave blood for the first time in a long time. Years maybe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1000023866.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"583\" height=\"902\" src=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1000023866.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3104\" style=\"width:583px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1000023866.jpg 583w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1000023866-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 85vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got poked yesterday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyhow, apparently I have been entered into a raffle for Superbowl tickets because of a promotion going on to get donors. I would go if I had tickets, I guess, though I confess I was unaware of the promotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don&#8217;t feel any issues. Went climbing today, and eased into it, but was eventually climbing 5.12a&#8217;s and b&#8217;s as usual. So, no noticeable effect on performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave blood for the first time in a long time. Years maybe. I got poked yesterday Anyhow, apparently I have been entered into a raffle for Superbowl tickets because of a promotion going on to get donors. I would go if I had tickets, I guess, though I confess I was unaware of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=3103\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gave Blood&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3105,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions\/3105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}