{"id":1761,"date":"2008-12-22T08:45:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T13:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2008-12-21T21:49:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T02:49:45","slug":"discretionary-spending-cont-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1761","title":{"rendered":"Discretionary Spending (cont.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contra <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122852208312684193.html\">Raoul Felder<\/a>, who asked for a bailout for divorce lawyers in an op-ed for the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> because:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is no other profession more dependent on <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=1610\">discretionary spending<\/a>, except perhaps the oldest one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebigmoney.com\/articles\/news\/2008\/12\/17\/slim-pickings?page=0,1\">Chris Thompson of Slate&#8217;s The Big Money<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some of the luckiest attorneys in the world, he says, will be the divorce lawyers. &#8220;Suddenly, people find themselves cutting back, and that makes them lose face in their tony community,&#8221; he says. &#8220;So that exposes tensions in the relationship that may have been previously ignored. The matrimonial bar may see a flow out from this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s come to for New York&#8217;s finest lawyers: waiting around for broke investment bankers to destroy their marriages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contra Raoul Felder, who asked for a bailout for divorce lawyers in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal because: There is no other profession more dependent on discretionary spending, except perhaps the oldest one. Chris Thompson of Slate&#8217;s The Big Money: Some of the luckiest attorneys in the world, he says, will be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1032,5,36],"tags":[1144,1145,1080,1079,76,853,298],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial-crisis-economics","category-humor","category-law","tag-chris-thompson","tag-divorce","tag-lawyers","tag-raoul-felder","tag-slate","tag-the-big-money","tag-wall-street-journal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-sp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}