{"id":3927,"date":"2005-06-30T20:23:21","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T00:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/06\/30\/sitting-on-our-hands-in-july\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:57:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:57:36","slug":"sitting-on-our-hands-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/06\/30\/sitting-on-our-hands-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"sitting on our hands in July"},"content":{"rendered":"

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f\/k\/a<\/EM> is closing down until at least the end of <\/FONT>July.  haikuEsq<\/EM> will continue, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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while <\/FONT>dagosan tries to hone his craft.  <\/FONT>Prof. Yabut and ethicalEsq<\/EM> have been <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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locked out and are expected to take their tired old bones on vacation.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“noyabutsSN”  Sitting on our pundit’s hands for a whole month won’t be easy.  We’ve <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and <\/FONT>one-breath punditry<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A>.  But, your Editor really needs to relax and show a <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>little self-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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discipline, and we hope you’ll wish us luck and keep coming for a <\/FONT>daily dose of good, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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genuine haiku and senryu.  Don’t forget: our <\/FONT>ethicalEsq<\/EM> archives<\/FONT><\/A> are always <\/FONT><\/FONT>here for <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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raspberries in season–<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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all day I’ve needed<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Gary Hotham<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A> from<\/FONT> <\/FONT><\/FONT>breathmarks: haiku to read in the dark<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A>  \"coin<\/FONT> <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a piroutte<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"jailbird  From Troy, NY, comes a <\/FONT>nasty sentencing story<\/FONT><\/A>: <\/FONT><\/FONT>the <\/FONT>jail-house tv-  <\/FONT><\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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confession <\/FONT><\/A>defendant, Phillip Pitcher, who killed the aunt who had given <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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  As mentioned yesterday, the opinion-punditry-and-finger-pointing side of f\/k\/a is closing down until at least the end of July.  haikuEsq will continue, with alacrity, to provide haiku from our fine team of Honored Guest Poets, while dagosan tries to hone his craft.  Prof. Yabut and ethicalEsq have been locked out and are expected to take their tired old bones on vacation. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-11l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13146,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions\/13146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}