{"id":7209,"date":"2019-09-30T04:19:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/what-the-odds-are\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:19:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:19:05","slug":"what-the-odds-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/what-the-odds-are\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Odds Are\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What The Odds Are&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8211;The Chances you will eventually die in a car crash: 1 in 125<br \/>\n&#8211;Develop a brain tumor: 1 in 25,000<br \/>\n&#8211;Die in a fire this year:  1 in 4,000,000<br \/>\n&#8211;Win a state lottery jackpot:  1 in 4,000,000 (from Harper Perennial, 1992)<br \/>\n&#8211;Chances of your being killed by terrorists overseas: 1 in 650,000<br \/>\n&#8211;Chances of your being aborted if you are in the womb of an American woman: 1 in 3.3<\/p>\n<p>(From WHAT ARE THE CHANCES? By Bernard Siskin, Crown, 1989)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What The Odds Are&#8230; &#8211;The Chances you will eventually die in a car crash: 1 in 125 &#8211;Develop a brain tumor: 1 in 25,000 &#8211;Die in a fire this year: 1 in 4,000,000 &#8211;Win a state lottery jackpot: 1 in 4,000,000 (from Harper Perennial, 1992) &#8211;Chances of your being killed by terrorists overseas: 1 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[450,3171,312,5088],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}