{"id":18316,"date":"2014-02-28T14:50:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T19:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=18316"},"modified":"2014-02-28T14:50:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T19:50:23","slug":"is-d-c-a-state-or-just-a-state-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=18316","title":{"rendered":"Is D.C. a state? Or just a state of mind?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This maybe not entirely funny thing from Lowering the Bar isn&#8217;t really about lawsuits. But it reminds me that once, while describing how (not) to find a lawyer, I related a tale<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p13yRc-1qf\"> about a friend of mine, <\/a>who lives in D.C. but had trouble convincing a Michigan lawyer that D.C. was an adequate part of his address. That, no, he didn&#8217;t live in a state.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Lowering the Bar story which, much less alarmingly, involves the ignorance of a TSA agent: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loweringthebar.net\/2014\/02\/i-dont-think-we-accept-these-tsa.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LoweringTheBar+%28Lowering+the+Bar%29\">&#8220;I Don&#8217;t Think We Accept These,&#8221; Says TSA Agent, Peering at D.C. License &#8211; Lowering the Bar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This maybe not entirely funny thing from Lowering the Bar isn&#8217;t really about lawsuits. 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