{"id":318,"date":"2016-10-04T20:07:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T00:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fearofflying.com\/library\/?p=318"},"modified":"2016-10-04T20:07:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T00:07:17","slug":"the-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fearofflying.com\/library\/the-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is a person&#8217;s odds of dying due to one thing or another? Statistics may be interesting, but they don&#8217;t really change how we feel. Why? Statistics are processed in the left brain, but emotions are triggered by what goes on in the right brain.<\/p>\n<p>Smoking (by\/before age 35): 1 in 600<br \/>\nCar trip, coast-to-coast: 1 in 14,000<br \/>\nBicycle accident: 1 in 88,000<br \/>\nTornado: 1 in 450,000<br \/>\nTrain, coast-to-coast: 1 in 1,000,000<br \/>\nLightning: 1 in 1,900,000<br \/>\nBee sting: 1 in 5,500,000<br \/>\nU.S. commercial jet airline: 1 in 7,000,000<br \/>\nSources: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Massachusetts<br \/>\nInstitute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>\n<p>Image Credit: patrisyu \u2013\u00a0 freedigitalphotos.net<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a person&#8217;s odds of dying due to one thing or another? Statistics may be interesting, but they don&#8217;t really change how we feel. Why? Statistics are processed in the left brain, but emotions are triggered by what goes on in the right brain. Smoking (by\/before age 35): 1 in 600 Car trip, coast-to-coast: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fearofflying.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fearofflying.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fearofflying.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearofflying.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearofflying.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearofflying.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearofflying.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearofflying.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fearofflying.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearofflying.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearofflying.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}