{"id":217,"date":"2005-04-29T22:19:45","date_gmt":"2005-04-30T02:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/04\/29\/the-sting-is-mightier-than-the-sword\/"},"modified":"2005-04-29T22:19:45","modified_gmt":"2005-04-30T02:19:45","slug":"the-sting-is-mightier-than-the-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/04\/29\/the-sting-is-mightier-than-the-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sting is Mightier than the Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4957'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\">Thieves have been a constant affliction on human existence<br \/>\n        since our earliest ancestors snuck away from the site of a kill with<br \/>\n        an extra antelope shank under their loincloths. In the modern world this<br \/>\n        tendency continues, despite thousands of years of acculturation and religious<br \/>\n        indoctrination. A fascinating area of study is the variations on the<br \/>\n        larcenous model seen in different cultures and countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">In the United States, for example, the far majority<br \/>\n        of the theives are white collar criminals. Whey work out of offices,<br \/>\n        PO boxes, off-shore servers.&nbsp; Thier tools are TV, web sites, email<br \/>\n        and the US tax code.&nbsp; Many of them are lawyers.&nbsp; When you get<br \/>\n        robbed by these people you don&#8217;t even realize what happened until later<br \/>\n        &#8211; in some cases, much later. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thieves have been a constant affliction on human existence since our earliest ancestors snuck away from the site of a kill with an extra antelope shank under their loincloths. In the modern world this tendency continues, despite thousands of years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/04\/29\/the-sting-is-mightier-than-the-sword\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}