{"id":785,"date":"2008-07-09T21:53:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T03:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=785"},"modified":"2008-07-09T21:53:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T03:53:47","slug":"why-dont-you-just-shoot-him-your-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"Why don&#8217;t you just shoot him, Your Honor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Judge Parker isn&#8217;t as rich as Croesus, and he&#8217;s trying to up the advance on his first novel from $25K to $75K!  Not only does he enlist Sam&#8217;s help (whose specialty is neither intellectual property law or reviewing crappy first-time novels), but the Judge is forcing him to go to <em>Phoenix<\/em> to meet with the publisher.<\/p>\n<p>And play golf.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, the past month in Phoenix has been recording daily highs between 105F and 110F.<\/p>\n<p>To my knowledge, there are no indoor golf courses in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>Just get your pistol and shoot Sam in the farkin&#8217; head, Alan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/new-jp3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-786\" title=\"new-jp3\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/new-jp3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/new-jp3.jpg 690w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/new-jp3-250x72.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least one person (aside from the Judge) is glad to see Sam go&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/not-jp-30.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-787\" title=\"not-jp-30\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/not-jp-30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/not-jp-30.jpg 550w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/not-jp-30-250x90.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Judge Parker isn&#8217;t as rich as Croesus, and he&#8217;s trying to up the advance on his first novel from $25K to $75K! Not only does he enlist Sam&#8217;s help (whose specialty is neither intellectual property law or reviewing crappy first-time novels), but the Judge is forcing him to go to Phoenix to meet with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judge-parker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}