{"id":3102,"date":"2015-04-01T13:17:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T10:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verekeskus.ee\/?page_id=3102"},"modified":"2015-04-01T13:18:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T10:18:36","slug":"the-legend-of-the-pelican","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/verekeskus.ee\/en\/donate-blood\/the-legend-of-the-pelican\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legend of the Pelican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word donor comes from a Latin root, <em>donare<\/em>, to give.\u00a0There is an ancient tale of a pelican who becomes the world\u2019s first donor:<\/p>\n<p><em>There were hard times in the bird kingdom. After a fruitless search for food, a mother pelican returned hungry to the nest where five hatchlings awaited her. The famished baby birds made a racket, pecked at the mother\u2019s plumage, beating their beaks against the mother\u2019s breast. \u00a0The bird didn\u2019t feel pain, but was gripped by only one thought: how to get food for her offspring. With sharp pecks of her own beak, the mother scored her own breast\u00a0and the rivulets of blood flowed into the mouths of the hungry offspring. Their lives were saved.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_324\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/verekeskus.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Legend-pelikanist.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-324\" width=\"464\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/verekeskus.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Legend-pelikanist.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-324 size-full attachment-928x828\" alt=\"Legend pelikanist\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelican is the symbol of donating blood<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word donor comes from a Latin root, donare, to give.\u00a0There is an ancient tale of a pelican who becomes the world\u2019s first donor: There were hard times in the bird kingdom. After a fruitless search for food, a mother pelican returned hungry to the nest where five hatchlings awaited her. The famished baby birds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324,"parent":2524,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verekeskus.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verekeskus.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verekeskus.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verekeskus.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verekeskus.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/verekeskus.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3105,"href":"https:\/\/verekeskus.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3102\/revisions\/3105"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verekeskus.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verekeskus.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verekeskus.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}