{"id":2100,"date":"2012-08-28T20:14:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T19:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2012-08-28T20:14:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T19:14:52","slug":"tony-hancock-eat-your-heart-out-or-your-bone-marrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2100","title":{"rendered":"Tony Hancock eat your heart out. Or your bone marrow."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer I&#8217;ve been percolating some news which some of my friends-and-relations already know, but (strangely for me &#8211; I&#8217;m usually a total blabbermouth about me) others won&#8217;t know about.<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago I was identified as a possible match for bone marrow donation for an anonymous donor (by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhsbt.nhs.uk\/bonemarrow\/\" target=\"_blank\">British Bone Marrow Registry<\/a>). I thought it would be helpful to &#8220;document&#8221; the process and how things have gone, but I didn&#8217;t want to put everything out there and then have to say &#8220;sorry folks, it&#8217;s not happening: my fingernails are too long&#8221;. So I&#8217;ve been storing them up. It looks like things will be going ahead soon and it feels like &#8220;live&#8221; blogging the actual thing might be helpful.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m scheduling the stored posts to be put live through this week, and (so long as I&#8217;m not having too much fun and forget to) will post about the process as it&#8217;s occurring.<\/p>\n<p>On some levels it&#8217;s been really bizarro-world (as explained henceforth), and on others it doesn&#8217;t really feel like it&#8217;s actually happening. Hopefully the potential recipient feels the same, but in a good way.<\/p>\n<p>See you (live) on the other side&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer I&#8217;ve been percolating some news which some of my friends-and-relations already know, but (strangely for me &#8211; I&#8217;m usually a total blabbermouth about me) others won&#8217;t know about. A few months ago I was identified as a possible &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2100\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-whole-pint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2101,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions\/2101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}