{"id":3014,"date":"2010-01-23T19:27:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T00:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2010-01-23T19:27:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T00:27:33","slug":"repost-uk-terror-threat-defined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/23\/repost-uk-terror-threat-defined\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:: UK terror threat, defined"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>UK terror threat, defined<br \/>\nwait 2 secs to reload the image<br \/>\nBy Peter Boockvar &#8211; January 22nd, 2010, 3:51PM<br \/>\nThe DJ is reporting that the UK raised its terror threat level to \u2018Severe\u2019 from \u2018Substantial.\u2019 They define \u2018Substantial\u2019 as an \u2018attack is a strong possibility\u2019 whereas \u2018Severe\u2019 is defined as \u2018an attack is highly likely.\u2019<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritholtz.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/uk-terror-threat-defined\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBigPicture+%28The+Big+Picture%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">The Big Picture \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb UK terror threat, defined<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I get it but it seems arbitrarily imprecise. Severe has a probability near 50 but whose highest point is not above 50 percent. whilst substantial has a high point above 50. Why don&#8217;t they just use something like the doomsday clock??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK terror threat, defined wait 2 secs to reload the image By Peter Boockvar &#8211; January 22nd, 2010, 3:51PM The DJ is reporting that the UK raised its terror threat level to \u2018Severe\u2019 from \u2018Substantial.\u2019 They define \u2018Substantial\u2019 as an \u2018attack is a strong possibility\u2019 whereas \u2018Severe\u2019 is defined as \u2018an attack is highly likely.\u2019 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/23\/repost-uk-terror-threat-defined\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:: UK terror threat, defined&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}