{"id":4644,"date":"2017-06-29T20:47:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T12:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=4644"},"modified":"2017-06-29T20:49:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T12:49:23","slug":"thanks-goaty-ferraris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/29\/thanks-goaty-ferraris\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks &#038; goaty Ferraris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to all who played along with my #blogjune challenge.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to summarise these, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Both my sons received excellent school reports today, beating their personal bests and getting the best possible feedback for attitude. (During the parent \/teacher feedback session for one kid today the maths teacher started the session by leaning her pink-striped head right into our space and saying in the loudest voice &#8220;He&#8217;s doing BLOODY WELL&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>So, as a spontaneous celebration, the kids&#8217; dad and I took them out for dinner. Two very large teenagers and a Greek buffet. I think the buffet won. Just.<\/p>\n<p>The last half of dinner degenerated into people lining up two salt shakers and the metal table number and lifting them up, waving them about saying &#8220;goat&#8221;, &#8220;car&#8221;. One member of the party had never come across the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monty_Hall_problem\">Monty Hall problem<\/a>. I had. I think there is no advantage to switching and the probability remains at 50:50 regardless of what went before. And regardless of how many salt shakers are shaken at me.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; no chance to blog anything deeper before bed \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to all who played along with my #blogjune challenge. I was going to summarise these, but&#8230; Both my sons received excellent school reports today, beating their personal bests and getting the best possible feedback for attitude. (During the parent \/teacher feedback session for one kid today the maths teacher started the session by leaning&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-1cU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4646,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions\/4646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}