{"id":114770,"date":"2024-11-22T20:22:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T00:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=114770"},"modified":"2024-11-22T20:22:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T00:22:04","slug":"friday-afternoon-donate-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2024\/11\/22\/friday-afternoon-donate-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday afternoon &#8211; Donate life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"207\" height=\"240\" data-id=\"114772\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1sam.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-114772\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1sam.jpeg 207w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1sam.jpeg 129w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:100.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/donatelife.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/donatelife.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=638 638w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"274\" data-id=\"114771\" data-link=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?attachment_id=114771\" data-url=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/donatelife.jpg\" data-width=\"638\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/donatelife.jpg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>okay we mark the day that Sam&#8217;s strong heart, liver and kidney&#8217;s helped save 4 other peoples lives. \u00a0The decision to opt for organ donation was the easiest and hardest \u00a0decision we ever had to make . We knew that Sam with his generous spirit would want that.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Organ donation is an amazing process of matching and caring \u00a0for two people, the donor and recipient . \u00a0 One of the most important components is to know what the donor would have wanted.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>you can honor Sam&#8217;s memory by having that conversation with your loved ones. Make sure they know what you would want if you are ever in that situation.. and I hope yo never will be<br \/><br \/>You can also honor Sam&#8217;s memory by giving bloo. Itoccurred to me recently is that there&#8217;s one way almost everyone can &#8220;donate life&#8221;.. Thats through blood donation. It&#8217;s one of the only ways you can donate something from yourself to save another persons life and do it again and again . The Red Cross thought that was interesting and wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/redcrossnne.blogspot.com\/2024\/09\/the-many-gifts-of-sam-cohn-how-one.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawGt_SdleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHRi8AzLiqjVxwbGUac2fK5Mb1sHSEqIpEeM-e3NkrfIP4ALlcwnd3MOPyg_aem_KqIYGGOEE4NUwGdAoo4Ltw\">this story about Sam, Organ donation and blood donation \u00a0<\/a><br \/><br \/><br \/>We are in Oregon visiting Gabe..Today our friend Pat sent this photo and movie a friend made today of a rainbow hitting our house.. \u00a0 Its just the way Sam would send his love \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"586\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"114773\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/rainbowsam-586x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-114773\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/rainbowsam.jpg 586w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/rainbowsam.jpg 172w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/rainbowsam.jpg 86w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/rainbowsam.jpg 768w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/rainbowsam.jpg 879w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/rainbowsam.jpg 1170w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/rainbowsam.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/a847fe3a206d440786c2d3fd1a9caf5d.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you Sam.. we love you !<br \/><br \/>nite all, nite sam<br \/>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>okay we mark the day that Sam&#8217;s strong heart, liver and kidney&#8217;s helped save 4 other peoples lives. \u00a0The decision to opt for organ donation was the easiest and hardest \u00a0decision we ever had to make . We knew that Sam with his generous spirit would want that.\u00a0 Organ donation is an amazing process of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2024\/11\/22\/friday-afternoon-donate-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday afternoon &#8211; Donate life<\/span> <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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114776,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114770\/revisions\/114776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}