{"id":808,"date":"2008-04-30T18:39:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T00:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=808"},"modified":"2008-04-30T18:39:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T00:39:12","slug":"a-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=808","title":{"rendered":"A Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demographers are projecting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/census\/2008-04-28-onebillion_N.htm\">1 billion<\/a> Americans by 2100 by &#8230; wait for it .. . taking current trends and extrapolating them out.  This is the same method that has led them to consistently massively overestimate the population of the world for the last century.  Must be nice to work in a discipline where being so thoroughly wrong doesn&#8217;t hurt you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demographers are projecting 1 billion Americans by 2100 by &#8230; wait for it .. . taking current trends and extrapolating them out. This is the same method that has led them to consistently massively overestimate the population of the world for the last century. Must be nice to work in a discipline where being so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=808\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Billion<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-d2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}