{"id":337,"date":"2003-07-29T20:52:25","date_gmt":"2003-07-30T00:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/07\/29\/why-im-lazy-on-principle\/"},"modified":"2007-02-15T21:49:03","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T01:49:03","slug":"why-im-lazy-on-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/07\/29\/why-im-lazy-on-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;m lazy on principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a276\"><\/a>  Recently, <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/halleyscomment.blogspot.com\/\">Halley&#8217;s Comment<\/a> served up Rocky Road, and for what it&#8217;s worth, I thought it was the perfect Sunday dish.  It started somewhere around <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.halleyscomment.blogspot.com\/2003_07_20_halleyscomment_archive.html#105889486081447192\">here<\/a>, and then some people apparently <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/halleyscomment.blogspot.com\/2003_07_20_halleyscomment_archive.html#105898200430172950\">gave her a hard time about it<\/a>, but she <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/halleyscomment.blogspot.com\/2003_07_20_halleyscomment_archive.html#105927759496782644\">did it anyway<\/a>, and had some interesting <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/halleyscomment.blogspot.com\/2003_07_27_halleyscomment_archive.html#105937623530692764\">reflections<\/a> about it.  Opting out &#8212; and getting flak for it &#8212; reminded me of an article (in a Munich paper) I read in the late 70s that recounted the hostile reactions a woman got in response to keeping one day a week alcohol-free.  Her drinking buddies went nuts.  They said <em>she<\/em> had a problem; they didn&#8217;t see that they were the addicts or that they were enabling each other.  Puritan America is happy enough to let you be alcohol-free, but it seems that there are always other addictions a-plenty that your co-dependents don&#8217;t want you to lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Halley&#8217;s Comment served up Rocky Road, and for what it&#8217;s worth, I thought it was the perfect Sunday dish. It started somewhere around here, and then some people apparently gave her a hard time about it, but she did it anyway, and had some interesting reflections about it. Opting out &#8212; and getting flak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}