{"id":774,"date":"2007-02-12T07:10:01","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T12:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=774"},"modified":"2007-02-12T07:10:01","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T12:10:01","slug":"better-but-not-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"Better &#8230; But Not Good Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, an estimated 39% of Ottawa homes were without a working smoke detector.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the <a href=\"http:\/\/cfra.com\/headlines\/index.asp?cat=1&#038;nid=47083\" target=\"_blank\">number improved to 25%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am putting a plea out there to not only Ottawa residents, but EVERY Canadian to join my newly created &#8220;Ask Three Friends&#8221; campaign.  No, there is no form, or email address required.  No you do not have to give up any personal information.  In fact, we don&#8217;t even keep a campaign supporters list.  There is only one way to join.<\/p>\n<p>When you visit a friend&#8217;s home, ask them &#8220;Do you have a smoke detector?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No need to get into an argument if they don&#8217;t.  Just tell them they are a cheap investment that can save their life.  If we all ask the next three friends we visit, we can get that percentage down even further and it just might save that friend&#8217;s life.  Or even better, if they say no, and that friend has a birthday coming up, buy them the gift of safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, an estimated 39% of Ottawa homes were without a working smoke detector. Last year, the number improved to 25%. I am putting a plea out there to not only Ottawa residents, but EVERY Canadian to join my newly created &#8220;Ask Three Friends&#8221; campaign. No, there is no form, or email address required. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philanthropy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}