{"id":706,"date":"2012-12-04T06:16:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T12:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=706"},"modified":"2012-12-03T18:12:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T00:12:56","slug":"magical-mantra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2012\/12\/04\/magical-mantra\/","title":{"rendered":"Magical mantra makes many materialize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See if you can spot the pattern here in the single most popular post from four blogs which I follow fairly closely:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2012\/12\/Capture1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-711\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2012\/12\/Capture1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2012\/12\/Capture1.png 630w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2012\/12\/Capture1-192x300.png 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ok, now, that&#8217;s just weird, right? We all write on various topics, some quite disparate, but the mention of <em>one particular name<\/em> draws readers and commenters like flies to honey. Or to a bug-zapper. Either way, it&#8217;s uncanny and just a bit frightful. I&#8217;ve no idea where she learned to do marketing, but I&#8217;d be willing to pay well for my children to attend.<\/p>\n<p>p.s. Kudos to Ed for harnessing the power of the mantra to get people talking seriously about\u00a0science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See if you can spot the pattern here in the single most popular post from four blogs which I follow&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damned-lies-and-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}