{"id":47,"date":"2008-04-24T10:41:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T00:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.wordpress.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2008-04-24T10:41:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T00:41:44","slug":"a-bizarre-sense-of-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"a bizarre sense of risk&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politics\u00a0comes up with strange\u00a0seemingly\u00a0stupid outcomes some times. For instance take these two things. Now I would have thought that deaths that do occur are a worse outcome that ones that do not. But here in NSW they do not think this way.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>When the government wanted to introduce\u00a0random\u00a0speed\u00a0cameras, people were up in arms, even though speeding kills\u00a0hundreds\u00a0of people each year.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0government\u00a0banned laser pointers, something no other place has been so stupid as to do, even though the number of incidents can be counted on one hand and the number of deaths are zero<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>They have no\u00a0sense\u00a0of perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics\u00a0comes up with strange\u00a0seemingly\u00a0stupid outcomes some times. For instance take these two things. Now I would have thought that deaths[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1044,2054,3411],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sydney","tag-death","tag-laser-pointer","tag-speeding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}