{"id":797,"date":"2007-01-02T14:34:46","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T14:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=797"},"modified":"2007-01-02T14:34:46","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T14:34:46","slug":"for_your_edification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/01\/02\/for_your_edification\/","title":{"rendered":"For Your Edification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We briefly digress from our regularly scheduled end-of-year rambling to offer up the following bits of potentially useful and\/or entertaining information:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Despite the many articles I&#8217;ve read that make it sound as if Mount Everest has turned into some kind of wacky Disneyland for outdoorsy types, there is still <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/5281344.stm\">one death for every 10 successful attempts<\/a> to climb the highest mountain in the world. Personally, I tend to avoid any sport that occurs in a place called the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_zone\">death zone<\/a>.&#8221;\n<li>Ever wonder what exactly someone means when they get all panicky and start talking about the end of the world? Are they talking about a <i>Mad Max<\/i> scenario where society breaks down and we have to start dressing like refugees from a Duran Duran video? Or do they mean, as Admiral Kirk says in <i>Star Trek IV<\/i>, the end of all life on earth? Well, now you can take all the guesswork out of any discussion of the apocalypse by using this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openthefuture.com\/2006\/12\/an_eschatological_taxonomy.html\">handy-dandy classification chart<\/a> for &#8220;existential risks.&#8221; I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that someone took the time to work all this out, but for some reason, I am&#8230;\n<\/ul>\n<p>That is all. We now return you to our regular mundane blogging topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We briefly digress from our regularly scheduled end-of-year rambling to offer up the following bits of potentially useful and\/or entertaining information:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}