{"id":10286,"date":"2011-10-29T08:20:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T13:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10286"},"modified":"2011-10-26T10:22:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T15:22:51","slug":"book-report-whiplash-americas-most-frivolous-lawsuits-by-james-percelay-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/29\/book-report-whiplash-americas-most-frivolous-lawsuits-by-james-percelay-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Whiplash: America&#8217;s Most Frivolous Lawsuits<\/i> by James Percelay (2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/whiplash.jpg\" width=\"100\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\">This is a short book that collects some outrageous lawsuits and notes their results.  They&#8217;re grouped by topic, and each features a clever picture of an actor portraying a shady lawyer.  Each explanation of the lawsuit is a couple paragraphs.  It&#8217;s like someone made a book of distilled &#8220;That&#8217;s Outrageous!&#8221; columns from <em>Reader&#8217;s Digest<\/em> and distilled them.  It&#8217;s like <a href=\"http:\/\/overlawyered.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Overlawyered.com<\/a> condensed and with more snark.<\/p>\n<p>In short, a quick browseable book suitable for sports viewing, but not likely to leave much impression on you once you&#8217;re done with it.  If you&#8217;re like me.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B000IOF4I6&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short book that collects some outrageous lawsuits and notes their results. They&#8217;re grouped by topic, and each features a clever picture of an actor portraying a shady lawyer. Each explanation of the lawsuit is a couple paragraphs. It&#8217;s like someone made a book of distilled &#8220;That&#8217;s Outrageous!&#8221; columns from Reader&#8217;s Digest and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10288,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10286\/revisions\/10288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}