{"id":7609,"date":"2009-12-28T14:45:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T22:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7609"},"modified":"2009-12-31T16:14:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T00:14:26","slug":"why-no-war-on-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7609","title":{"rendered":"Why No &#8216;War on Lightning&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Odds of being on an airplane attacked by a terrorist over the past decade, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2009\/12\/odds-of-airborne-terror.html\">according to Nate Silver<\/a> at FiveThirtyEight.com: <b>1 in 10,408,947<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Odds of being hit by lightning in any single year: <b>appx. 1 in 500,000<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Odds the U.S. will wage a War on Lightning: <b>0 in a Gazillion<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Odds we&#8217;ll talk about all of the above tonight when <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7608\">I guest host <i>The Mike Malloy Show<\/i><\/a>: <b>appx. 1 in 3<\/b> (if that high).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong><\/em> And furthermore, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7616\">why no &#8216;War on Salmonella&#8217;?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odds of being on an airplane attacked by a terrorist over the past decade, according to Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com: 1 in 10,408,947. Odds of being hit by lightning in any single year: appx. 1 in 500,000. Odds the U.S. will wage a War on Lightning: 0 in a Gazillion. Odds we&#8217;ll talk about all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,405,188,100],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-66","category-bush-legacy","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-war-on-terror","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7609"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}