{"id":955860,"date":"2021-01-21T14:26:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T20:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=955860"},"modified":"2021-01-22T14:26:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T20:26:10","slug":"east-texas-seniors-name-drawn-from-thousands-of-blood-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=955860","title":{"rendered":"East Texas senior&#8217;s name drawn from thousands of blood donors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/01\/Carter-Bloodcare-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-955862\" \/>DALLAS &#8212; With hundreds of mobile blood drives canceled due to the pandemic, Carter BloodCare partnered with Thompson Auto Group to give away a car. All donors in December were automatically registered for the give-a-way. On Thursday, Megan Hunt, a senior at Rusk High School picked up her new Chevy Trax. KTBB spoke with the winners grandmother,  Virginia Hunt, as Megan was on a test drive in the Carter BloodCare parking lot. &#8220;It&#8217;s such a blessing for her. Hunt continued, &#8220;Megan advocates for people to give blood. As we were coming here, she said, oh look there&#8217;s a blood drive Feb. 4th. She&#8217;s a good kid.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Carter&#8217;s Clinton McCoy told KTBB, &#8220;Megan is a senior at West Rusk High School. She donated but didn&#8217;t realize she was being entered into the drawing for the car. So when we notified her that she had won, it took some convincing. We had a hard time getting her to believe that it wasn&#8217;t a scam.&#8221; The organization says just to keep up with local demand, they need 10,000 healthy donors to give before the end of January; that&#8217;s 1,000 every day through the end of the month. Carter Bloodcare provides transfusion resources to more than 200 medical facilities in over 50 counties throughout North, Central, and East Texas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS &#8212; With hundreds of mobile blood drives canceled due to the pandemic, Carter BloodCare partnered with Thompson Auto Group to give away a car. All donors in December were automatically registered for the give-a-way. On Thursday, Megan Hunt, a senior at Rusk High School picked up her new Chevy Trax. KTBB spoke with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=955860\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas senior&#8217;s name drawn from thousands of blood donors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":955868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/01\/Carter-Bloodcare-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"East Texas senior\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name drawn from thousands of blood donors","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 05:23:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/01\/Carter-Bloodcare-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"East Texas senior\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name drawn from thousands of blood donors","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=955860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955867,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955860\/revisions\/955867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/955868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}