{"id":2042,"date":"2013-01-13T17:33:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T23:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2013-01-13T17:33:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T23:33:32","slug":"january-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/13\/january-13\/","title":{"rendered":"January 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/30\/sunday-review\/to-encourage-biking-cities-forget-about-helmets.html\">Bike helmet laws<\/a> may kill more people than they save.<\/p>\n<p>I should not have watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uO46ii3W07U&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=14s\">this collection of George W. Bush clips<\/a> while eating lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think there are more grains of sand on earth or more stars in the sky? Someone has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/krulwich\/2012\/09\/17\/161096233\/which-is-greater-the-number-of-sand-grains-on-earth-or-stars-in-the-sky\">figured it out<\/a> and stars wins it by some orders of magnitude. And that&#8217;s not all.<\/p>\n<p>Would you have children if you knew they were likely to inherit <a href=\"http:\/\/thecripplegate.com\/why-we-chose-to-have-beautiful-babies\/\">a deadly disease<\/a>? One of my former students provides some very well-considered thoughts on the matter. <\/p>\n<p>This is some of the most stunning <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/56879439\">time-lapse video<\/a> I have ever seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bike helmet laws may kill more people than they save. I should not have watched this collection of George W. Bush clips while eating lunch. Do you think there are more grains of sand on earth or more stars in the sky? Someone has figured it out and stars wins it by some orders of\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/13\/january-13\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}