{"id":1882,"date":"2013-01-28T21:58:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/presentation-skills-blog.co.uk\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2013-01-28T21:58:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:58:05","slug":"what-can-we-learn-about-slides-from-fire-hydrants-lots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/what-can-we-learn-about-slides-from-fire-hydrants-lots\/","title":{"rendered":"What can we learn about slides from fire hydrants? Lots."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"http:\/\/presentation-skills-blog.co.uk\/2013\/01\/what-can-we-learn-about-slides-from-fire-hydrants-lots\/fire_hydrant_sign\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1883\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1883\" title=\"fire_hydrant_sign\" src=\"http:\/\/presentation-skills-blog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/fire_hydrant_sign.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a>A fire is an emergency, pretty clearly. The last thing the firefighters involved want to be doing when they&#8217;re dealing with the fire is messing around looking for hydrants (water supplies) or trying to guess what size supply it is.<\/p>\n<p>Scattered around British towns and cities are signs like the one I snapped on my trusty iPhone today, to the right.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear, simple and obvious and tells the firefighter what they need to know, without any un-necessary fuss. According to the pretty definitive statement here (http:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/what-do-the-yellow-h-signs-mean-43167) what this particular sign is telling us is that there&#8217;s a 100 millimeter sized supply, 12 metres away from the sign.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s simplicity itself.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine, oh please, just imagine, <strong>if all your slides were that clear<\/strong>. They tell your audience what they need to know, and only what they need to know, in the clearest possible way, without any silly fuss.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, if they did, we&#8217;d be out of a job! :)<\/p>\n<p>So do your audience a favour. See if you can put me out of business!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire is an emergency, pretty clearly. The last thing the firefighters involved want to be doing when they&#8217;re dealing with the fire is messing around looking for hydrants (water supplies) or trying to guess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}