{"id":146,"date":"2005-12-13T22:18:06","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T02:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/12\/13\/money-money-money\/"},"modified":"2006-04-28T00:21:54","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T07:21:54","slug":"money-money-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/12\/13\/money-money-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Money Money Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a445\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>JP1 and I (and another associate) share the same secretary.\u00a0 The three of us have decided to get her a gift certificate.\u00a0 We just can&#8217;t decide what kind.\u00a0 The other associate and I want to get her a gift certificate to a spa.\u00a0 JP1 wants to get a Visa gift card.\u00a0 I ran into JP1 as I was getting ready to leave tonight:<\/p>\n<p>JP1:\u00a0 The Visa gift card is more practical.<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 Christmas isn&#8217;t about being practical!\u00a0 Otherwise, we&#8217;d skip gift-giving altogether and just buy ourselves what we want for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>JP1:\u00a0 Uh . . . isn&#8217;t that what you &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 &#8211; yes, whatever, that&#8217;s beside the point.<\/p>\n<p>JP1:\u00a0 I&#8217;ve asked previous secretaries and they&#8217;ve all told me they&#8217;d prefer whatever&#8217;s closest to cash.<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 Maybe that&#8217;s because they&#8217;re afraid of the alternative.<\/p>\n<p>JP1:\u00a0 Are you saying I have bad taste?!<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 No, just that you&#8217;re a boy.<\/p>\n<p>JP1:\u00a0 I just think we should be practical.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0\u00a0I know JP1, but not everyone&#8217;s like you.\u00a0 If we get her the Visa card, she&#8217;ll spend it on her family.\u00a0 If we get her a spa gift card, she&#8217;ll be forced to indulge.<\/p>\n<p>JP1:\u00a0 Shouldn&#8217;t she have the choice whether to indulge?<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 No.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>JP1:\u00a0 Why not?<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0\u00a0You are SUCH an engineer.\u00a0 [Note:\u00a0 JP1 used to be a structural engineer.]\u00a0 Fine.\u00a0 You win.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s get her the Visa card.\u00a0 But just because I&#8217;ve been taught to respect my elders.\u00a0 Clearly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JP1 and I (and another associate) share the same secretary.\u00a0 The three of us have decided to get her a gift certificate.\u00a0 We just can&#8217;t decide what kind.\u00a0 The other associate and I want to get her a gift certificate to a spa.\u00a0 JP1 wants to get a Visa gift card.\u00a0 I ran into JP1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-family-and-everyone-in-between","category-lawyering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}