{"id":22,"date":"2005-03-13T08:47:28","date_gmt":"2005-03-13T12:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/03\/13\/friggin-a\/"},"modified":"2005-03-13T08:47:28","modified_gmt":"2005-03-13T12:47:28","slug":"friggin-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/03\/13\/friggin-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Friggin’ A"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My mom just woke me up because I promised to judge a Lion’s Club speech
\ncontest on her behalf.  My eyes are plastered shut and I don’t have my voice right now (“Throat, ow<\/span>…),
\nand I’ve got 20 minutes now to leave the apartment to make it on
\ntime.  I’m going to be somnambulant throughout the event.  But
\nthis isn’t the thing that has me thinking right now….<\/p>\n

10 years ago, I came in second<\/span>
\nin this same speech contest to this kid from the local Jesuit high
\nschool.  He was definitely more eloquent, so it was a fair
\nloss.  He was in my BarBri class last summer, and also ended up
\ndevoting his crunch time days to studying at the UCSF library. 
\nEach time he went out of a smoke break though, I couldn’t help
\nremembering that loss, and thought that coming back here meant that my life
\n(and my career) was (were) an extension of high school.  Now, he’s a
\nprosecutor over in one of the suburban Bay Area counties, which means
\nin 20 or so years, he’ll likely be a judge, which again, will make me
\nslightly envious.  Oh, well, this is how you make big firm SF lawyers envious.<\/p>\n

And just to prove that the regression to high school is complete, this is what my Rowerr teachers are up to now (yes, this what my alumni donations are funding.).<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My mom just woke me up because I promised to judge a Lion’s Club speech contest on her behalf.  My eyes are plastered shut and I don’t have my voice right now (“Throat, ow…), and I’ve got 20 minutes now to leave the apartment to make it on time.  I’m going to be somnambulant throughout […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}