{"id":48,"date":"2003-05-07T10:26:34","date_gmt":"2003-05-07T16:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2003-05-07T10:26:34","modified_gmt":"2003-05-07T16:26:34","slug":"more-idiots-who-sue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2003\/05\/more-idiots-who-sue\/","title":{"rendered":"<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,86154,00.html\">More idiots who sue<\/A>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Undeterred by the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2003\/01\/22\/news\/companies\/mcdonalds\/\">failure of the McDonald&#8217;s lawsuit<\/A> in which plaintiffs claimed it was<br \/>\nthe restaurant, not their own ignorance and behavior, that caused their obesity, a man who lost his life savings in slot machines is suing the casino where he<br \/>\ndropped the money.<\/p>\n<p>Just as I was sorry for the kids in the McD&#8217;s suit who had idiot parents, I&#8217;m sorry for this man&#8217;s family for his idiocy.  He obviously has a gambling problem,<br \/>\nbut instead of seeking help, he seeks a &#8220;quick fix&#8221; by suing, any award from which he would most likely give right back to the casino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undeterred by the failure of the McDonald&#8217;s lawsuit in which plaintiffs claimed it was the restaurant, not their own ignorance and behavior, that caused their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}