{"id":71,"date":"2010-06-01T15:15:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T15:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sgttodd.wordpress.com\/?p=71"},"modified":"2019-02-12T19:15:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:15:45","slug":"lawsuits-for-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/lawsuits-for-dummies\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuits for dummies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/tech_guide\/2010\/05\/31\/2010-05-31_lauren_rosenberg_sues_google_blames_faulty_google_maps_directions_after_being_hi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Or BY dummies I suppose.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Woman asks google for directions from one place to another on her blackberry. Gets directions. Follows directions down a road with no sidewalks. Gets hit by a car. Sues google.<\/p>\n<p>So many things wrong with this I find myself nearly mute, though I wish to comment. What. An. Idiot. And a selfish idiot at that. I suppose we could attribute a certain low cunning to the idiot in question. Google, after all, has deep pockets and may settle out of court.<\/p>\n<p>Why is she an idiot? Several reasons. One, for getting hit by a car as a pedestrian. Not hard to avoid. Another, for thinking that the magic google-magic would keep her safe on a road she could plainly see didn&#8217;t have sidewalks, and which she is now claiming was obviously unsafe. Obvious to everyone but her at time apparently. Yet one more, for behaving in a manner that would end society in a heartbeat if everyone followed suit. Really, idiot? You wish to live in a society where Google is responsible for YOUR actions? How about YOU be responsible for your OWN actions.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and you, her friends who urged her to sue. You&#8217;re stupid too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or BY dummies I suppose. Woman asks google for directions from one place to another on her blackberry. Gets directions. Follows directions down a road with no sidewalks. Gets hit by a car. Sues google. So many things wrong with this I find myself nearly mute, though I wish to comment. What. An. Idiot. And &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/lawsuits-for-dummies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lawsuits for dummies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","category-social","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}