{"id":2210,"date":"2009-08-30T19:57:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T23:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2009-08-30T19:57:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T23:57:48","slug":"the-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2210","title":{"rendered":"The odds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2211\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2211\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/CRW_4992-150x99.jpg\" alt=\"A bench\" title=\"A bench\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2211\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/CRW_4992-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/CRW_4992-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/CRW_4992-1024x681.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/CRW_4992.jpg 1090w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> discovered a couple of coincidences the other day:\n<\/p>\n<p>1. Hurricanes: I noticed that they (the hurricanes) always seem to hit during the weekend. Bill did so last week and (the remnants of) Danny did this weekend (oh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/new-brunswick\/story\/2009\/08\/28\/danny-tropical-storm-atlantic.html\">that was a lot of rain for sure<\/a>). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/aboutnames.shtml\">Mark my words<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. Traffic lights: Every time my bus stops at King&#8217;s Square, Saint John, the (pedestrian) traffic light hits green. Last week this happened to me every day and if I was religious I could have claimed this to be an act of god. I&#8217;ve asked for a peer review of my observations.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. People: I hardly run into people I know (that is people outside of my profession) and if I do, it&#8217;s because I recognize them and not the other way around.\n<\/p>\n<p>Reminder to self: bring some dice in next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered a couple of coincidences the other day: 1. Hurricanes: I noticed that they (the hurricanes) always seem to hit during the weekend. Bill did so last week and (the remnants of) Danny did this weekend (oh, that was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2210\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301],"tags":[302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}