{"id":588,"date":"2010-05-14T16:38:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T16:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2010\/05\/a-chance-to-save-a-life.html"},"modified":"2010-05-14T16:38:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T16:38:41","slug":"a-chance-to-save-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2010\/05\/a-chance-to-save-a-life.html","title":{"rendered":"A Chance to Save a Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote earlier about a little girl in my area who is fighting a very serious cancer with the odds against her, as an example of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2010\/04\/a-good-world-and-undeserved-suffering-the-tough-cases.html\">undeserved suffering in a good world<\/a>. &nbsp;I just saw a story in Huffingtonpost about<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/05\/14\/four-year-old-devan-has-a_n_576444.html\"> a four year old who needs a bone marrow transplant<\/a>, as she did, and an announcement as to how people can help such victims, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marrow.org\/JOIN\/Join_Now_Sponsored\/join_now_sponsored.html\">joining a bone marrow registry<\/a>. &nbsp;I went to sign up, but the maximum age is 60, and I&#8217;m two years too old. &nbsp;Bummer.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Then I thought I&#8217;d announce it on this blog. &nbsp;<b>It is extremely easy to join<\/b><b>, and you might save a life some day.<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote earlier about a little girl in my area who is fighting a very serious cancer with the odds against her, as an example of undeserved suffering in a good world. &nbsp;I just saw a story in Huffingtonpost about a four year old who needs a bone marrow transplant, as she did, and an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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