{"id":1174,"date":"2013-04-16T14:37:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T18:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2013-04-16T14:37:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T18:37:15","slug":"8-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"8 Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ezra Klein, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/04\/16\/eight-facts-about-terrorism-in-the-united-states\/?hpid=z2\">on Terrorism in America:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the last five years, the odds of an American being killed in a terrorist attack have been about 1 in 20 million (that\u2019s including both domestic attacks and overseas attacks). [As the chart above from the Economist shows, [T]hat\u2019s considerably smaller than the risk of dying from many other things, from post-surgery complications to ordinary gun violence to lightning.<\/p>\n<p>That said, terrorist attacks obviously loom much larger in our collective consciousness \u2014 not least because they\u2019re designed to horrify. So, understandably, they get much more attention.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ezra Klein, on Terrorism in America: In the last five years, the odds of an American being killed in a terrorist attack have been about 1 in 20 million (that\u2019s including both domestic attacks and overseas attacks). [As the chart above from the Economist shows, [T]hat\u2019s considerably smaller than the risk of dying from many other things, from post-surgery complications &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}