{"id":301,"date":"2010-03-02T16:23:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T23:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/private-person.com\/blog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2010-04-28T11:26:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T18:26:53","slug":"simplify-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/private-person.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/simplify-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplify the law&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a pretty good talk from a lawyer int he US that wants to simplify the law and return to a more intelligent, responsible process. Sounds good to me, although <!--more-->he comes at it with some usual &#8220;lawyer trained blinders on&#8221;, I like the idea and that folks are working seriously to change what has become an obvious bad joke (the present day legal system in total disrepute).<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"446\" height=\"326\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/PhilipHoward_2010_embed-medium.mp4&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/PhilipHoward-2010.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=771&amp;introDuration=16500&amp;adDuration=4000&amp;postAdDuration=2000&amp;adKeys=talk=philip_howard;year=2010;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=a_taste_of_ted2010;theme=not_business_as_usual;event=TED2010;&amp;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"446\" height=\"326\" src=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" flashvars=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/PhilipHoward_2010_embed-medium.mp4&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/PhilipHoward-2010.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=771&amp;introDuration=16500&amp;adDuration=4000&amp;postAdDuration=2000&amp;adKeys=talk=philip_howard;year=2010;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=a_taste_of_ted2010;theme=not_business_as_usual;event=TED2010;&amp;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a pretty good talk from a lawyer int he US that wants to simplify the law and return to a more intelligent, responsible process. Sounds good to me, although<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[29,13],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy-in-the-news","tag-law","tag-usa","no-featured-image","loop-entry clr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/private-person.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/private-person.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/private-person.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/private-person.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/private-person.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/private-person.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/private-person.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/private-person.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/private-person.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}