{"id":19797,"date":"2013-03-19T16:05:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T20:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=19797"},"modified":"2013-03-19T16:05:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T20:05:47","slug":"legal-jobs-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/03\/19\/legal-jobs-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Unemployed Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, nobody&#8217;s going to boo hoo over unemployed lawyers. In fact, some may even secretly (or not so secretly) cheer for news that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/magazine\/march_april_2013\/on_political_books\/bar_examined043320.php\">getting a legal job is harder than ever.<\/a>  (And it wasn&#8217;t exactly easy a zillion years ago when I went to law school.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects 73,600 new lawyer jobs to be created in the U.S. in the current decade, American law schools graduate about 44,000 new JDs each year. So averaged over the decade, there are six new lawyers for each new job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Unemployed Lawyers<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re planning on law school, beware:<br \/>\nThose legal spots just aren&#8217;t there.<br \/>\nFor each new lawyer job,<br \/>\nSix new lawyers named Rob<br \/>\nOr Roberta will vie for the chair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, nobody&#8217;s going to boo hoo over unemployed lawyers. In fact, some may even secretly (or not so secretly) cheer for news that getting a legal job is harder than ever. (And it wasn&#8217;t exactly easy a zillion years ago when I went to law school.) Though the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects 73,600 new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,10,42,8,4],"tags":[1393,3552,3551,3553,182,1537,725],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19797"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19797"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19811,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19797\/revisions\/19811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}