{"id":12004,"date":"2025-05-27T08:45:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T08:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/?p=12004"},"modified":"2025-05-27T08:45:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T08:45:56","slug":"be-our-blood-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/05\/27\/be-our-blood-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Our Blood Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12005\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/Martin.png\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/Martin.png\" data-orig-size=\"620,372\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Martin\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/Martin.png\" class=\" wp-image-12005 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/Martin-300x180.png\" alt=\"Picture of Martin Cockcroft, sat on a step\" width=\"393\" height=\"236\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>School of Biology Technical Operations Manager, Martin Cockcroft, told his amazing story to the Courier newspaper recently.\u00a0 For more than three decades Martin regularly donated blood but he never realised the impact it had &#8211; until his own life depended on blood donors following a mesenteric artery aneurysm.\u00a0 Back at work now in the School of Biology, Martin is aiming to continue making life saving contributions by completing training to join Blood Bikes Scotland and by supporting the Couriers, The Courier\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/news\/5215391\/be-our-blood-donation-campaign\/\">Be Our Blood<\/a>\u00a0campaign where the newspaper is asking people across Tayside, Fife and Stirling to register<a href=\"https:\/\/donor.scotblood.co.uk\/dwp\/portal\/dwa\/signUp\/interim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and become a donor.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School of Biology Technical Operations Manager, Martin Cockcroft, told his amazing story to the Courier newspaper recently.\u00a0 For more than three decades Martin regularly donated blood but he never realised the impact it had &#8211; until his own life depended on blood donors following a mesenteric artery aneurysm.\u00a0 Back at work now in the School&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":12005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,40,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrating-success","category-media","category-technical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/Martin.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}