{"id":3736,"date":"2005-04-05T13:08:03","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T17:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/04\/05\/permanent-ripples\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:57:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:57:49","slug":"permanent-ripples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/04\/05\/permanent-ripples\/","title":{"rendered":"permanent ripples"},"content":{"rendered":"

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