{"id":692,"date":"2007-08-11T15:22:55","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T19:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=692"},"modified":"2007-08-11T15:22:55","modified_gmt":"2007-08-11T19:22:55","slug":"beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_693\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-693\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-693 \" title=\"TheLaw\" src=\"https:\/\/monachuslex.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/TheLaw-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Monachus Lex adventure begins!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I am not sure exactly when I first started thinking about attending law school. It was an idea that had been at the periphery of my mind for some time but only as a fleeting thought. After all, as a 40 year old professional who is very happy with his career, what would be the point?<\/p>\n<p>However, in addition to my career, I lead a &#8220;second&#8221; life as a very active civil rights activist. I care deeply about the issues for which I advocate and see my contributions in this arena as my true legacy to my state and my children.<\/p>\n<p>In this role, I work frequently with the state legislature and local governments on legislative issues and I have increasingly come to understand that those who practice law are in a position to affect public policy that they share with no other citizen. Being a practicing member of the state bar would be an honor and a privilege that would allow me to fully contribute to the defense of my issues.<\/p>\n<p>Add to this the fact that a fellow lobbyist and friend followed this exact same train of thought and is now ready to start his 3rd year in law school; suffice it to say that his experiences have only served to further whet my interest.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; here I am &#8230; having finally decided that I will matriculate to\u00a0<em>some<\/em>\u00a0law school in the Fall of 2008.<\/p>\n<p>What is the next step? Stay tuned &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure exactly when I first started thinking about attending law school. It was an idea that had been at the periphery of my mind for some time but only as a fleeting thought. After all, as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=692\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}