{"id":88,"date":"2005-07-01T14:20:44","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T18:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/07\/01\/clever-titles-are-overrated\/"},"modified":"2005-07-01T14:20:44","modified_gmt":"2005-07-01T18:20:44","slug":"clever-titles-are-overrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/07\/01\/clever-titles-are-overrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Clever Titles Are Overrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a228'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>So I turned in my rush assignment this week and apparently it didn&#8217;t suck.&nbsp; This caused the brilliant&nbsp;junior partner on my team, who&#8217;s not assigned to the case, to say, &#8220;Hey, I hear [the senior partner] liked your work.&nbsp; Keep it up.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;Being as close to a compliment as JP&#8217;s ever given me, this statement caused me to&nbsp;immediately&nbsp;stop in my tracks and stare at him, dumbfounded.&nbsp; &#8220;Wait.&nbsp; Did you just almost compliment me?!&nbsp; I have to note this momentous occasion!&#8221;&nbsp; (Yes, I can be a little cheeky sometimes.)&nbsp; His reply?&nbsp; &#8220;Well, don&#8217;t go resting on your laurels.&#8221;&nbsp; Unless resting on my laurels involves developing an ulcer because I&#8217;m worried I missed a procedural rule that will cause the court to throw out my motion, this probably isn&#8217;t a concern.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Meanwhile, when I&#8217;m not busy resting on my laurels, I&#8217;m reading articles about morbid obesity.&nbsp; A friend of mine who knows my unhealthy and odd&nbsp;fascination with this topic sent me this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/06\/25\/AR2005062501286.html?sub=new\">lengthy article<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Those of you who didn&#8217;t know this about me apparently haven&#8217;t&nbsp;been to any cocktail parties with me recently.&nbsp; Sadly enough, I can discuss it ad naseum.&nbsp; And have.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I turned in my rush assignment this week and apparently it didn&#8217;t suck.&nbsp; This caused the brilliant&nbsp;junior partner on my team, who&#8217;s not assigned to the case, to say, &#8220;Hey, I hear [the senior partner] liked your work.&nbsp; Keep it up.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;Being as close to a compliment as JP&#8217;s ever given me, this statement caused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}