{"id":1539,"date":"2009-03-29T20:33:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T21:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2009-03-29T20:33:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T21:33:39","slug":"as-barbie-says-math-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=1539","title":{"rendered":"As Barbie says, Math is Hard&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m checking out my bracket (Louisville: Welcome to the Dead to Me list) and I notice that the main page of the Yahoo bracket thingy says that my bracket is in the 98th percentile for brackets. I&#8217;m alllll excited until I realize that this does not mean that my bracket is better than 98% of brackets, but that it is better than 2% of brackets.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>(Full disclosure: this happened last year, too).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m checking out my bracket (Louisville: Welcome to the Dead to Me list) and I notice that the main page of the Yahoo bracket thingy says that my bracket is in the 98th percentile for brackets. I&#8217;m alllll excited until I realize that this does not mean that my bracket is better than 98%&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-are-educated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}