{"id":1147,"date":"2006-03-10T20:07:41","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T20:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2006-03-10T20:07:41","modified_gmt":"2006-03-10T20:07:41","slug":"do-gooders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1147","title":{"rendered":"Do-Gooders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV>I had lunch today with a friend from law school.&nbsp; We were talking about how few of our classmates we keep in touch with.&nbsp; The conversation turned to our law student days and my friend said, &#8220;It [law school] was full of Republicans.&nbsp; I thought there would be more people like me, people who wanted to change the world, but most of them only seemed concerned with how much their paychecks would be.&#8221;&nbsp; And she kind of had a point.&nbsp; When I got to law school, I quickly realized I had no interest in any sort of private practice and I never really felt like I had much in common with most of my classmates.&nbsp; The few lasting friends I have from my law student days are all people who chose public interest or nontraditional career paths.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not implying that law school primarily attracts greedy, self-centered people (although there were times when I was ready to drop out and go to grad school), but I think the culture of law school is unavoidably geared towards preparing students for private practice.&nbsp; Unfortunately, those of us who were interested in other options sometimes felt a little marginalized.<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had lunch today with a friend from law school.&nbsp; We were talking about how few of our classmates we keep in touch with.&nbsp; The conversation turned to our law student days and my friend said, &#8220;It [law school] was full of Republicans.&nbsp; I thought there would be more people like me, people who wanted <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1147' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-iv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}