{"id":3837,"date":"2013-03-26T20:19:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T01:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3837"},"modified":"2013-03-26T20:19:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T01:19:14","slug":"fools-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3837","title":{"rendered":"Fool&#8217;s Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of today&#8217;s oral arguments on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/newsdesk\/2013\/03\/supreme-court-asks-what-marriage-means.html\">Prop 8 case,<\/a> it may be a good time to remind everyone that it&#8217;s a waste of time to predict how the Court will rule on a high-profile issue. Around this time last year, pundits were writing the eulogy for the Affordable Care Act. And we all know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/06\/28\/dewey-defeats-truman-obama-photoshop-cnn-photo_n_1634417.html\">how that turned out<\/a>. Keep that in mind over the next few months as various &#8220;authorities&#8221; claim to have the inside scoop on how the Court will rule. They don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of today&#8217;s oral arguments on the Prop 8 case, it may be a good time to remind everyone that it&#8217;s a waste of time to predict how the Court will rule on a high-profile issue. Around this time last year, pundits were writing the eulogy for the Affordable Care Act. And we <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3837' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-20-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-ZT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837","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=3837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}