{"id":17255,"date":"2013-07-22T21:50:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T02:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=17255"},"modified":"2013-07-22T21:50:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T02:50:20","slug":"prediction-it-will-be-a-girl-at-least-one-of-her-names-will-be-diana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/22\/prediction-it-will-be-a-girl-at-least-one-of-her-names-will-be-diana\/","title":{"rendered":"Prediction: \u201cIt will be a girl. At least one of her names will be Diana.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Royal Baby is born, any time now, it will be a girl, according to about 67% of some 50 psychics recently surveyed. If the psychics were guessing randomly, we would assume that about half of them would say &#8220;girl&#8221; and the other half would say &#8220;boy&#8221; but with a full 2\/3rds saying one thing, we have to assume they are on to something.  And, the lead psychic apparently said that one of the girl&#8217;s names will be Diana.  At least one of her names.  So possibly two of her names.  She might be Diana Diana Diana Windsor.  Apparently, this is a possibili&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;wait, what? The baby has already been borned?  Excellent!  Now we can find out what she will be named?<\/p>\n<p>What? The Royal Couple has not named the child yet, or a t least, not released the name? Well, no matter, we know one of the girl&#8217;s names will be Dia&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; wait, what? What&#8217;s that you say? The baby is a BOY? Not a girl? Are you sure?  Let me check on that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2013\/07\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-22-at-9.45.48-PM.png?resize=544%2C352\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-07-22 at 9.45.48 PM\" width=\"544\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17256\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whoa, you are right, it&#8217;s a boy!<\/p>\n<p>Huh. The psychics were mostly wrong.  About everything!<\/p>\n<p>Who would have predicted that?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2013\/7\/prweb10916023.htm\">Not these guys, apparently.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doubtfulnews.com\/2013\/07\/its-a-boy-psychic-fail\/?fb_source=pubv1\">Hat Tip idoubtit <\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/johnmckay.blogspot.com\/\">archy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queen-victorias-scrapbook.org\/contents\/2-3.html\">Her Majesty&#8217;s The Royal Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Royal Baby is born, any time now, it will be a girl, according to about 67% of some 50 psychics recently surveyed. If the psychics were guessing randomly, we would assume that about half of them would say &#8220;girl&#8221; and the other half would say &#8220;boy&#8221; but with a full 2\/3rds saying one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/22\/prediction-it-will-be-a-girl-at-least-one-of-her-names-will-be-diana\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prediction: \u201cIt will be a girl. At least one of her names will be Diana.\u201d<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3788,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4uj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}