{"id":313,"date":"2004-11-03T23:50:23","date_gmt":"2004-11-04T03:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2004\/11\/03\/humble-pie-2\/"},"modified":"2004-11-03T23:50:23","modified_gmt":"2004-11-04T03:50:23","slug":"humble-pie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2004\/11\/03\/humble-pie-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Humble Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a432'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think that I caught the Portland Doc Review curse.&nbsp; I believe<br \/>\nthat it started last week when another associate picked up body lice<br \/>\nfrom a cloth armchair at the coffee shop next to the hotel.&nbsp; It<br \/>\nhit me tonight when I absentmindedly left my laptop bag in the back of<br \/>\nmy cab on the way home from the airport.&nbsp; I must accept my own<br \/>\nnegligence, since my forgetfulness plays a part in the missing<br \/>\nlaptop.&nbsp; Tomorrow, I must go into the office and eat humble pie<br \/>\nfor losing work equipment.&nbsp; Yikes!<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>As for the election, my candidate did not win.&nbsp; This is<br \/>\nlamentable, but not a reason to give up hope, or to threaten to<br \/>\nrenounce one&#8217;s citizenship.&nbsp; Oddly, I think that Bush is<br \/>\nsucceeding in his way of calling for &#8220;personal responsibility.&#8221;&nbsp; I<br \/>\nthink that when we look back at his administration in 40+ years, the<br \/>\nbiggest stamp will be smaller government and less action on behalf of<br \/>\nthe public, whether it be selling off public spaces, privatizing social<br \/>\nsecurity, or reducing governmental services.&nbsp; This will force me<br \/>\ninto taking &#8220;personal responsibility&#8221; out of a sense that I have to<br \/>\nsave my money, so that I can buy the public goods (i.e. public<br \/>\ntransportation, good schools) that the government used to<br \/>\nprovide.&nbsp; This is nothing new of course, its just a magnification<br \/>\nof the current trend towards privatization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that I caught the Portland Doc Review curse.&nbsp; I believe that it started last week when another associate picked up body lice from a cloth armchair at the coffee shop next to the hotel.&nbsp; It hit me tonight when I absentmindedly left my laptop bag in the back of my cab on the [&hellip;]<\/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-313","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\/313","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=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}