{"id":779,"date":"2007-05-02T05:08:52","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T11:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/05\/02\/words-to-live-by\/"},"modified":"2007-05-01T15:36:14","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T21:36:14","slug":"words-to-live-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"Words To Live By"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learned Foot <a href=\"http:\/\/koolaidreport.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/in-perpetuum-rei-testimonium.html\">eulogizes a teacher<\/a> and Minnesota notable who seemed to excoriate a younger, less learned Foot for a wrong answer in a Civil Procedure class &#8211; who then could not find the <em>right <\/em>answer&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;I asked a friend who did attend what the damn answer was.<\/p>\n<p>It was the exact same answer I had provided in class, and that the prof declared to be wrong. Apparently, because of his advanced age or whatever, he didn&#8217;t hear me correctly. I couldn&#8217;t find the right answer because I had already given it, and was looking elsewhere for it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amid which he discovered a vital life lesson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And he taught me that in order to be right, you need to speak loudly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Granted, with some of us it&#8217;s manifested more metaphorically than with Foot,\u00a0but lessons is lessons.<\/p>\n<p>(Scott Johnson also <a href=\"http:\/\/powerlineblog.com\/archives\/017491.php\">eulogizes the teacher<\/a>, former Minnesota judge Donald Lay)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learned Foot eulogizes a teacher and Minnesota notable who seemed to excoriate a younger, less learned Foot for a wrong answer in a Civil Procedure class &#8211; who then could not find the right answer&#8230;: &#8230;I asked a friend who did attend what the damn answer was. It was the exact same answer I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,23,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-geekery","category-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}