{"id":1711,"date":"2011-11-19T01:01:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T05:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2011-11-19T14:19:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T18:19:06","slug":"i-would-have-baked-bread-for-a-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1711","title":{"rendered":"I would have baked bread for a living."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wouldn&#8217;t write this blog if part of me didn&#8217;t love the law.<\/p>\n<p>But one of the greatest lawyers who&#8217;ve ever lived, Lysander Spooner, <a href=\"http:\/\/libertarian-labyrinth.org\/archive\/Our_Nestor_Taken_From_Us\">never &#8220;practiced&#8221; much law<\/a>. One of the greatest lawyers alive today, Tony Serra, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1204#more-1204\">confessed to his biographer<\/a> that he regarded &#8220;going into law&#8221; as for him &#8220;a fall from grace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I suspect being a lawyer is like being a priest. The priest can repudiate the Church. He can be excommunicated by the Church. But <a href=\"http:\/\/rentapriest.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/catholic-teaching-once-priest-always.html\">he&#8217;s still a priest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/brownandlittlelaw.com\/2011\/11\/18\/what-would-i-have-done\/\">Matt Brown<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wouldn&#8217;t write this blog if part of me didn&#8217;t love the law. But one of the greatest lawyers who&#8217;ve ever lived, Lysander Spooner, never &#8220;practiced&#8221; much law. One of the greatest lawyers alive today, Tony Serra, confessed to his biographer that he regarded &#8220;going into law&#8221; as for him &#8220;a fall from grace.&#8221; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,152,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lysander-spooner","category-matt-brown","category-tony-serra"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}