{"id":1833,"date":"2009-02-17T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/02\/17\/you-are-not-a-lawyer\/"},"modified":"2009-02-28T16:29:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T21:29:38","slug":"you-are-not-a-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/02\/17\/you-are-not-a-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are Not A Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

This comment, found over on Seen On Slash<\/a>, is funny because it\u2019s absolutely<\/em> true:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Difference between them<\/em> and us<\/em>? <\/p>\n

    \n
  • Techie: If you don’t know how to do what I do, then learn. <\/li>\n
  • Lawyer: If you don’t know how to do what I do, pay me $500 an hour or your children will die penniless in the gutter<\/em>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Difference between them and us? <\/p>\n

      \n
    • Techie: If you don’t know how to do what I do, then learn. <\/li>\n
    • Lawyer: If you don’t know how to do what I do, pay me $500 an hour or your children<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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":[7],"tags":[85,46,66],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","tag-geek","tag-humor","tag-slashdot","entry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-tz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":289,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/11\/29\/stupid-lawsuits\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833,"position":0},"title":"Stupid Lawsuits","author":"Keith Survell","date":"November 29, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Somehow, some way, we MUST stop suing one another over every little thing. 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