{"id":2320,"date":"2004-09-19T15:51:20","date_gmt":"2004-09-19T15:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2004\/09\/19\/explain-this\/"},"modified":"2004-09-19T15:51:20","modified_gmt":"2004-09-19T15:51:20","slug":"explain-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2320","title":{"rendered":"explain-this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, so explain this to me before I die of a heart attack.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a known fact that by the time one graduates law school one has become a little bit more superstitious.  You learn to read the signs, because frankly we all know it&#8217;s all so subjective.  The essay portion of the Texas Bar Exam is worse.  You&#8217;ll get more points if you use &#8216;reasonable prudent person&#8217; even if you put &#8216;reasonable prudent man.&#8217;  So, what&#8217;s left?  We read the signs to see if we&#8217;ve passed or not.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s fifty\/fifty so far.  If you get an advertisement for a bar prep course that means you failed.  Except an acquaintance of mine received one and passed, and I didn&#8217;t and I failed.  The first time around the thing worked, so it works half of the time.  This time I&#8217;m freaking out.<br \/>\nI received a pamphlet in the mail inviting me to a CLE course.  This is for <b>licensed<\/b> lawyers.  Hello, I&#8217;m not licensed yet, but I did receive this the same day I get the notice telling me when bar results will be announced.  Sometime in November I&#8217;m guessing because I can&#8217;t bear to look.  Oh god, this is a bad sign, isn&#8217;t it?  I know the bastards already have the MBE scores.  Does this mean I&#8217;m in the temporarily pass list because ya know, the essays were not pretty.  See, this is the kind of anxiety I could do with out.<br \/>\nSeriously, who do I have to kill to become licensed in this state (and not get caught).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, so explain this to me before I die of a heart attack. It&#8217;s a known fact that by the time one graduates law school one has become a little bit more superstitious. You learn to read the signs, because frankly we all know it&#8217;s all so subjective. The essay portion of the Texas Bar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}