{"id":28387,"date":"2026-04-27T17:31:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28387"},"modified":"2026-04-27T17:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:31:58","slug":"precognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28387","title":{"rendered":"Precognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president is calling for the firing of Jimmy Kimmel, but why? As I understand it, the president is accusing Kimmel of having accurately foreseen an extremely low probability event a full three days before that event occurred.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me, given this new revelation about Kimmel&#8217;s ability to see into the future, that merely firing him would be a terrible waste of resources. Shouldn&#8217;t the government deputize him, and put him to work telling us what is going to happen three days from now, so we can avoid mishaps?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of mishaps, wouldn&#8217;t it have been better for the U.S. war effort if our military hadn&#8217;t started out by blowing up more than a hundred little Irani schoolgirls? Arguably, it would have been easier for us to win the hearts and minds of the Irani people if we hadn&#8217;t just pulverized their kids.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine, my fellow Americans, what our nation could accomplish, if only we were willing to harness Jimmy Kimmel&#8217;s new-found superpowers of precognition! Thank you for your attention to this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president is calling for the firing of Jimmy Kimmel, but why? As I understand it, the president is accusing Kimmel of having accurately foreseen an extremely low probability event a full three days before that event occurred. It seems to me, given this new revelation about Kimmel&#8217;s ability to see into the future, that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28387\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Precognition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28387"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28388,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28387\/revisions\/28388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}