{"id":1203,"date":"2009-06-17T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2009-06-16T20:39:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T00:39:12","slug":"learn-cpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/17\/learn-cpr\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn CPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not geeky, not funny.\u00a0 Just plain and simple&#8230; Learn CPR.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t know it, go learn it.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve learned it before, refresh your memory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the American Heart Association:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Almost 80 percent of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur at home and are witnessed by a family member<\/li>\n<li>Only 6.4 percent of sudden cardiac arrest victims survive because the vast majority of those witnessing the arrest are people who do not know how to perform CPR<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Your whole life you&#8217;ve been told to learn CPR.\u00a0 You&#8217;ve probably ignored it or put it off.\u00a0 Quit stalling and go learn it.\u00a0 You might just save the life of someone you care about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If I must put it in geeky terms for you&#8230; Geeks don&#8217;t typically eat well or take great care of themselves.\u00a0 I gotta think that makes us more likely to have a heart attack.\u00a0 Imagine you&#8217;re hanging out with a geek-buddy when suddenly he drops to the ground and stops breathing.\u00a0 What do you do?\u00a0 Do you know CPR?\u00a0 Are you going to stand there while your buddy dies simply because you were too lazy to learn CPR?\u00a0 Now flip the situation around&#8230; imagine you&#8217;re the one who dropped to the ground and isn&#8217;t breathing.\u00a0 You better hope your buddy got off his butt and learned CPR.\u00a0 If you are a parent, imagine the person who isn&#8217;t breathing is your child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Learn CPR.\u00a0 Take a buddy with you if you can.\u00a0 You can <a title=\"CPR Classes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americanheart.org\/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3012360\" class=\"broken_link\">find classes in nearly every city<\/a>, or <a title=\"Learn CPR online\" href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/learncpr\/\">learn the basics online<\/a>.\u00a0 You can even <a title=\"CPR for the iPhone\" href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/learncpr\/cpr-iphone.html\">download applications for your iPhone about CPR<\/a>.\u00a0 If you have trouble finding a class, ask the local Fire Department, your doctor, or your Health Insurance provider.\u00a0 You may have to pay money for the class, but it&#8217;s worth it to save the life of someone important to you.\u00a0 Be a real-life superhero&#8230; 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Thankfully comic companies were generous with giveaway pins and also\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;apparel&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Pins from Marvel Comics, Valiant Comics, Malibu Comics, and more","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/button3.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4242,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/28\/my-geek-birthday-new-geeky-t-shirts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1203,"position":4},"title":"My Geek Birthday \u2013 New Geeky T-Shirts","date":"September 28, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday I posted several items I received for my birthday, including a TARDIS Cookie Jar.\u00a0 Today I'll be covering the awesome geek-related t-shirts I received! 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