{"id":4546,"date":"2003-08-14T19:01:52","date_gmt":"2003-08-14T23:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2003\/08\/14\/confessions-of-a-powerless-co"},"modified":"2011-08-05T15:00:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:00:45","slug":"confessions-of-a-powerless-consumer-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/08\/14\/confessions-of-a-powerless-consumer-advocate\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of a Powerless Consumer Advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a183'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Schenectady&nbsp;likes to call itself ElectriCity and the City&nbsp;that Lights and Hauls the World &#8212; both statements being sadly deceptive since the past couple of decades of economic decline (it <EM>was<\/EM> the birthplace of GE).&nbsp;&nbsp; But we are powerless here this hot summer afternoon, like many parts of the Country.&nbsp; I&#8217;m feeling lazy and cranky and wondering where my candles and matches are stored as we get near sunset.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>This is a great opportunity for a guiltless day off from policing all those rapacious bar organizations and suspicious barristers.&nbsp;&nbsp; I hope you&#8217;re safe and&nbsp;comfortable wherever you are.&nbsp; Me, I gotta conserve my one and only laptop battery.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schenectady&nbsp;likes to call itself ElectriCity and the City&nbsp;that Lights and Hauls the World &#8212; both statements being sadly deceptive since the past couple of decades of economic decline (it was the birthplace of GE).&nbsp;&nbsp; But we are powerless here this hot summer afternoon, like many parts of the Country.&nbsp; I&#8217;m feeling lazy and cranky and [&hellip;]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-4546","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-1bk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546","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=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14187,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions\/14187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}