{"id":1713,"date":"2009-08-21T20:47:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T02:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2009-08-21T20:47:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T02:47:41","slug":"lawyer-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1713","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that malpractice reform is back in the air, the legal profession is <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/55535\/tort-reform-unlikely-to-cut-health-care-costs\">doing what they always do<\/a>, using hired guns to muddy the waters with lies, distortions and half-truths.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, bitches.  It&#8217;s the Blog Era.  The compliant media might buy your line of crap.  But <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/08\/tort-reform-wont-fix-healthcare-ctd-2.html#more\">we don&#8217;t<\/a>.  The best thing about this era is that all the information locked up in the general public&#8217;s head is available.  We&#8217;re no longer at the mercy of talking heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that malpractice reform is back in the air, the legal profession is doing what they always do, using hired guns to muddy the waters with lies, distortions and half-truths. Sorry, bitches. It&#8217;s the Blog Era. The compliant media might buy your line of crap. But we don&#8217;t. The best thing about this era is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1713\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lawyer Lies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-law-and-order"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-rD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1714,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}