{"id":817,"date":"2019-01-01T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T13:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=817"},"modified":"2019-01-01T13:30:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T13:30:08","slug":"51-criterion-united-kingdoms-destiny-decided-by-2014-coin-toss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/01\/01\/51-criterion-united-kingdoms-destiny-decided-by-2014-coin-toss\/","title":{"rendered":"51% Criterion: United Kingdom&#8217;s Destiny Decided by 2014 Coin Toss?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width='110' height='55' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='\/~totl\/skywritings\/uploads\/ukflag.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' \/><img width='328' height='141' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='\/~totl\/skywritings\/uploads\/pound.jpg' alt='' \/><br \/>\n<img width='110' height='66' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='\/~totl\/skywritings\/uploads\/scotflag.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' \/><\/p>\n<p>A 51\/49 electoral mistake can be corrected 4 years later, but a 51\/49 squeaker for YES in a referendum for separation cannot be.<\/p>\n<p>(Almost as bad, a 51\/49 referendum squeaker for NO can keep being challenged year in and year out, destabilizing the country, until the YES squeaks through. Just keep doubling your bets.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d vote for a 2\/3 threshold&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img width='328' height='594' border='0' hspace='5' src='\/~totl\/skywritings\/uploads\/Pile_ou_face.jpg' alt='' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 51\/49 electoral mistake can be corrected 4 years later, but a 51\/49 squeaker for YES in a referendum for separation cannot be. (Almost as bad, a 51\/49 referendum squeaker for NO can keep being challenged year in and year out, destabilizing the country, until the YES squeaks through. Just keep doubling your bets.) I&#8217;d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/01\/01\/51-criterion-united-kingdoms-destiny-decided-by-2014-coin-toss\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;51% Criterion: United Kingdom&#8217;s Destiny Decided by 2014 Coin Toss?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}