{"id":163868,"date":"2025-08-21T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163868\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:26:10","slug":"jacksonvilles-bravest-unite-for-a-cause-at-battle-of-the-badges-blood-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163868\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville&#8217;s bravest unite for a cause at Battle of the Badges blood drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County\u2013Jacksonville Public Safety is calling on the community to help save lives by donating blood at the upcoming Battle of the Badges Blood Drive.<\/p>\n<p>The event takes place on Thursday, August 28, at the Jacksonville Commons Recreation Center, with a goal of collecting 150 units of donated blood.<\/p>\n<p>This friendly competition will pit the Jacksonville Fire Department against the Jacksonville Police Department, giving donors the chance to show their support for their favorite first responders while helping meet a critical community need.<\/p>\n<p>Residents can sign up now to reserve a donation time by visiting redcrossblood.org and searching by keyword JacksonvilleBattleofBadges or using the zip code 28546.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville Public Safety encourages everyone to take part: \u201cPlease consider giving the gift of life and helping us reach our goal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County\u2013Jacksonville Public Safety is calling on the community to help save lives by donating blood at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,94602,14359,718,35199,20781,3188,723,7310,7463,5292,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-163868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-battle-of-the-badges","10":"tag-blood-drive","11":"tag-community","12":"tag-donate","13":"tag-fire-department","14":"tag-fl","15":"tag-florida","16":"tag-jacksonville","17":"tag-police-department","18":"tag-public-safety","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115066987284081813","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}