{"id":334,"date":"2011-01-01T03:06:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T08:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=334"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:25","slug":"five-predictions-for-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/01\/five-predictions-for-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Predictions for 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The start of a new year seems to turn everyone into a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paper_fortune_teller\">fortune-teller<\/a>.\u00a0 So not to disappoint:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The last prediction in this list will turn out to be wrong.<\/li>\n<li>2011 will be the 24th consecutive year with repeated digits, and 2012 will be the 25th.\u00a0 Enjoy it while it lasts &#8212; 2013 will have four unique digits.<\/li>\n<li>Someone will predict that [Disaster D] will strike [Location L] on [Time T] causing [Consequence Q] and that person will no doubt be [Religious Fanatic X].<\/li>\n<li>Most of us will get a little older.\u00a0 Life will get better for some but not for others.\u00a0 Sadly, the gap between the <a href=\"http:\/\/charlesdickenspage.com\/haves-havenots.html\">haves and have-nots<\/a> will increase.\u00a0 Some will wring their hands, others will shove them in their pockets.\u00a0 Several will <a href=\"http:\/\/givingpledge.org\/#enter\">hand over their wealth<\/a> to help.<\/li>\n<li>The first prediction in this list will turn out to be right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As I was consulting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">my oracle<\/a> for these predictions, I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zonezero.com\/magazine\/essays\/diegotime\/time.html#\">this page<\/a> (which I predict you will enjoy), a concise and compelling photo-essay of the flow of time.\u00a0 If nothing else, writing this blog has led me to some rewarding reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The start of a new year seems to turn everyone into a fortune-teller.\u00a0 So not to disappoint: The last prediction in this list will turn out to be wrong. 2011 will be the 24th consecutive year with repeated digits, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/01\/five-predictions-for-2011\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3799,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/3799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}