{"id":3801,"date":"2005-04-29T15:28:34","date_gmt":"2005-04-29T19:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/04\/29\/haiku-schmaiku\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:57:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:57:45","slug":"haiku-schmaiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/04\/29\/haiku-schmaiku\/","title":{"rendered":"haiku schmaiku"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by David M. Bader (Harmony, 1999), and wish Happy Passover to <\/SPAN><\/FONT>all my <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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