{"id":4098,"date":"2005-09-21T18:27:51","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T22:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/09\/21\/rushing-the-season\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:57:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:57:23","slug":"rushing-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/09\/21\/rushing-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"rushing the season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As long as my brain is bent on rushing through autumn, I thought <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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apples picked
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