{"id":3650,"date":"2015-03-30T22:18:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T02:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/03\/30\/its-one-game-he-doesnt-mind-sitting-out\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:16:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:16:26","slug":"its-one-game-he-doesnt-mind-sitting-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/its-one-game-he-doesnt-mind-sitting-out\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s one game he doesn&#8217;t mind sitting out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/jake-kinsley.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17285 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/jake-kinsley.jpg\" alt=\"jake-kinsley\" width=\"190\" height=\"253\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 190px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 190\/253;\" \/><\/a>Three years had passed, and Jake Kinsley had forgotten all about participating in a bone marrow drive during his freshman year at Furman.\u00a0 He had submitted his information to \u201cBe The Match,\u201d a national marrow donor program, to aid a relative of a Furman tennis coach. But he was not a match. His name, however, remained in the registry, even though he didn\u2019t hear back from the donor program except for the occasional generic email. But that changed this winter when a peculiar number popped up on his cell phone. What happened next was featured in a front page story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/sports\/college\/furman\/2015\/03\/30\/furman-baseball-bone-marrow-donor\/70631526\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years had passed, and Jake Kinsley had forgotten all about participating in a bone marrow drive during his freshman year at Furman.\u00a0 He had submitted his information to \u201cBe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}