{"id":1801,"date":"2008-11-15T18:48:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T22:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2008-11-15T18:48:41","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T22:48:41","slug":"professional-disgust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/11\/15\/professional-disgust\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Disgust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a million reasons (most of them good, I&#8217;d like to think) that I don&#8217;t write about the practice of law or my area of expertise, here.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the reasons (maybe not so good) is that most interesting legal issues are never what they seem to the public, and are often more work to explain than they&#8217;re worth.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/11\/15\/165325\/33\/805\/661264\">this<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 This is straight up disgusting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a million reasons (most of them good, I&#8217;d like to think) that I don&#8217;t write about the practice of law or my area of expertise, here.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the reasons (maybe not so good) is that most interesting legal issues are never what they seem to the public, and are often more work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There are a million reasons (most of them good, I&#039;d like to think) that I don&#039;t write about the practice of law or my area of expertise, here.\u00c2 One of the reasons (maybe not so good) is that most interesting legal issues are never what they seem to the public, and are often more work\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"MB\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"law,personal\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/11\/15\/professional-disgust\/\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.1\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Blacknell.net | Politics, open government, and safe streets.  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