{"id":3200,"date":"2014-01-03T10:36:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T14:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=3200"},"modified":"2014-01-03T10:36:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T14:36:35","slug":"homicide-rates-drop-but-only-because-we-are-tougher-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/03\/homicide-rates-drop-but-only-because-we-are-tougher-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide rates drop, but only because we are tougher now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this is rather interesting, we are dying a lot less from violent crime. It seems that while there are actually more violent crimes, the ones that do happen are a lot less deadly since we more or less survive them now. This means that either we have become stupendous badasses, or medicine is more amazing than ever. I will lean towards the latter since in general I don&#8217;t feel any more badass than before.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway there you are, some food for thought for the new year.\u00c2\u00a0 Can&#8217;t decide if it&#8217;s a cup half full or half empty kind of thing, but fewer deaths is always a good thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\" http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/murder-rate-drops-as-more-survive-gunshots-stabbings-1.2481904?cmp=rss\">Murder Rate Drops as more survive gunshots, stabbings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this is rather interesting, we are dying a lot less from violent crime. It seems that while there are actually more violent crimes, the ones that do happen are a lot less deadly since we more or less survive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/03\/homicide-rates-drop-but-only-because-we-are-tougher-now\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-PC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3202,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions\/3202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}