{"id":5148,"date":"2004-11-26T13:20:39","date_gmt":"2004-11-26T17:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/11\/26\/a-hearse-and-a-grinch\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:12","slug":"a-hearse-and-a-grinch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/11\/26\/a-hearse-and-a-grinch\/","title":{"rendered":"a hearse and a grinch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. . . . \u00a0from <\/em><\/font>Open Window<\/em><\/font><\/a>: haiku and photographs by\u00a0<\/em><\/font>Michael Dylan Welch<\/em><\/font><\/a><\/font>\u00a0<\/em><\/font><\/div>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Mike at <\/font>Crime & Federalism states<\/font><\/a> that “<\/font>unlike the left,<\/em> we <\/font>Federalists <\/font>are diverse.” Since no ideology\u00a0<\/font>\u00a0can have\u00a0<\/font>an answer for every <\/font>problem,\u00a0thoughtful persons often<\/em>\u00a0escape the\u00a0confines of\u00a0ideo-labels.\u00a0 <\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\"tiny\u00a0 If the hearse haiku above seemed too dismal, I suggest reading <\/font>The Hearse You Came in On<\/font><\/a>, the<\/font><\/div>\n
first novel <\/font>in Tim\u00a0Cockey’s enjoyable series featuring Hitchcock Sewell, undertaker and reluctant sleuth.<\/div>\n
\"red\u00a0 Traditional GrinchEsq <\/em>Musing<\/u>:\u00a0 In a country where you don’t have to wait for some guy on a camel <\/font>or donkey to arrive to have <\/font>a shopping day; and where almost everybody already owns too many things; <\/font>why do we have <\/font>a “Holiday Shopping Season<\/em>” kicked off by a ridiculous stampede, and then give so <\/font>many and <\/font>such expensive gifts on a day meant to celebrate a saviour, or love, or one’s heritage?<\/font><\/div>\n

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blowing leaves . . .\u00a0 the shiny hearse turns the corner \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 original photo-haiku here mountain spring– in my cupped hand pine needles \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 original photo haiku here . . . . \u00a0from Open Window: haiku and photographs by\u00a0Michael Dylan Welch\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 by\u00a0dagosan: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Black Friday […]<\/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-5148","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-1l2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148","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=5148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13497,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions\/13497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}