{"id":148,"date":"2004-06-29T17:12:28","date_gmt":"2004-06-29T21:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=148"},"modified":"2013-05-16T18:53:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T22:53:40","slug":"legal-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/06\/29\/legal-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lawandpolitics.blogspot.com\/\">Legal Fiction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another interesting blog, which I found myself reading today. <\/p>\n<p>-Keithius<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal Fiction: Another interesting blog, which I found myself reading today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[113,385],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-legal","tag-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-2o","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":205,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/08\/19\/free-to-travel\/","url_meta":{"origin":148,"position":0},"title":"Free To Travel?","author":"Keith Survell","date":"August 19, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"A very interesting site, focused around Gilmore v. 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