{"id":42,"date":"2003-11-26T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-26T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/?p=42"},"modified":"2003-11-26T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-26T09:11:00","slug":"thats-one-heck-of-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/thats-one-heck-of-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s one heck of a difference&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a related vein to the previous post, there&#8217;s an interesting fact I read in <em>The Economist<\/em> recently: the average person in the US has 2.11 children, while in Western Europe \u2013 I\u2019m not sure which countries, exactly &#8211; the average is 1.45.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the sheer &#8220;wow&#8221; factor, that might create some interesting political differences in the decades ahead.  I know the pressure on health care issues in the US is becoming enormous.  Goodness knows what it must be like in Europe, and what it will become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a related vein to the previous post, there&#8217;s an interesting fact I read in The Economist recently: the average person in the US has 2.11 children, while in Western Europe \u2013 I\u2019m not sure which countries, exactly &#8211; the average is 1.45. Aside from the sheer &#8220;wow&#8221; factor, that might create some interesting political&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/thats-one-heck-of-a-difference\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That&#8217;s one heck of a difference&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}