{"id":973,"date":"2007-06-25T03:38:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T09:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/06\/25\/sorry-barb-and-jim\/"},"modified":"2007-06-25T03:38:18","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T09:38:18","slug":"sorry-barb-and-jim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=973","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, Barb and Jim&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but science finally proved what I think we knew all along.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Being the oldest child in the family has its perks: later bedtimes, no hand-me-downs, and, according to a new study, a higher IQ.<\/p>\n<p>The study, detailed in the June 22 issue of the journal Science, analyzed the IQs of nearly 250,000 Norwegian 18- and 19-year-old draftees and found that older siblings had <a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/livescience\/sc_livescience\/storytext\/studyoldersiblingshavehigheriqs\/23471791\/SIG=11i0bgebb\/*http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/healthday\/535914.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"><font color=\"#003399\">higher scores<\/font><\/a> than younger siblings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll type slower for y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but science finally proved what I think we knew all along. Being the oldest child in the family has its perks: later bedtimes, no hand-me-downs, and, according to a new study, a higher IQ. The study, detailed in the June 22 issue of the journal Science, analyzed the IQs of nearly 250,000 Norwegian 18- and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}