{"id":629,"date":"2008-03-14T08:27:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T15:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=629"},"modified":"2009-08-28T17:01:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T00:01:10","slug":"every-once-in-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"Every Once In a While"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is useful to remember that what we see on the &#8220;news&#8221; is in fact NOT typical of life in general, but usually an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/eskeptic\/08-02-13.html#feature\">exceptionally rare and unusual occurrence<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The current employment rate is 95.3 percent.<br \/>\nOut of 300 million Americans, roughly 299.999954 million were not murdered today.<br \/>\nDay after day, some 35,000 commercial flights traverse our skies without incident.<br \/>\nThe vast majority of college students who got drunk last weekend did not rape anyone, or kill themselves or anyone else in a DUI or hazing incident. On Monday, they got up and went to class, bleary-eyed but otherwise okay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is useful to remember that what we see on the &#8220;news&#8221; is in fact NOT typical of life in general, but usually an exceptionally rare and unusual occurrence: The current employment rate is 95.3 percent. Out of 300 million Americans, roughly 299.999954 million were not murdered today. Day after day, some 35,000 commercial flights &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=629\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Every Once In a While&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,124],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","tag-bagby","tag-beowulf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}