{"id":83,"date":"2003-05-22T14:47:59","date_gmt":"2003-05-22T18:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/05\/22\/why\/"},"modified":"2003-05-22T14:47:59","modified_gmt":"2003-05-22T18:47:59","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/05\/22\/why\/","title":{"rendered":"Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a55'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blast! I just succeeded in deleting my entire home directory with one stupid, brutal typo. My officemate Juliet knew exactly what had happened just by the way I said &#8220;Oh, Fuck!&#8221;, which is kind of neat.<br \/>\n<P>The files are easy to recover, but the rotten thing is that I had just been cleaning out the year and a half of cruft that&#8217;s accumulated there &#8211; most of that organization-work is lost.  There is, however, a bright side &#8211; while waiting for the slow tape drive to get to the right place, I had a chance to read <A href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views03\/0521-10.htm\">this<\/A> speech by our modern Demosthenes, Sen. Robert Byrd.&nbsp; I am glad that we have among us such a fine Orator &#8211;&nbsp;a&nbsp;first-rate Cassandrist &#8211; a Composer of Philippics&nbsp;in the true classic Style.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blast! I just succeeded in deleting my entire home directory with one stupid, brutal typo. My officemate Juliet knew exactly what had happened just by the way I said &#8220;Oh, Fuck!&#8221;, which is kind of neat. The files are easy to recover, but the rotten thing is that I had just been cleaning out the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}