{"id":5247,"date":"2025-07-08T22:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T22:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=5247"},"modified":"2025-07-08T22:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T22:21:16","slug":"aunt-bessie-loved-to-visit-her-nieces-and-nephews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=5247","title":{"rendered":"Aunt Bessie loved to visit her nieces and nephews."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"38\" data-end=\"241\">Aunt Bessie had family all over the country, but flying terrified her. Despite reassurances, safety briefings, and books on aviation, she couldn\u2019t shake the fear that someone might bring a b*mb on board.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"243\" data-end=\"322\">Hoping to ease her anxiety, the family sent her to a friend who was an actuary.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"324\" data-end=\"388\">\u201cWhat are the odds someone brings a b*mb on a plane?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"390\" data-end=\"427\">He replied, \u201cRoughly one in 500,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"429\" data-end=\"504\">She paused. \u201cAnd the odds of <em data-start=\"458\" data-end=\"463\">two<\/em> people bringing one on the same flight?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"506\" data-end=\"542\">He smiled. \u201cAbout one in a billion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"544\" data-end=\"627\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">From then on, Aunt Bessie brought her <em data-start=\"582\" data-end=\"587\">own<\/em> b*mb whenever she flew\u2014just to be safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Aunt Bessie had family all over the country, but flying terrified her. Despite reassurances, safety briefings, and books on aviation, she couldn\u2019t shake the fear that someone might bring a b*mb on board. Hoping to ease her anxiety, the family sent her to a friend who was an actuary. \u201cWhat are the odds &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5249,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions\/5249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}