{"id":255,"date":"2004-09-04T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-04T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2004-09-04T01:15:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-04T01:15:00","slug":"255","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Legal novels<\/strong><\/p>\n

As opposed to illegal novels? No, these are works of fiction<\/a>, pre-John Grisham, with legal office or courtroom settings, part of a “Law in Popular Culture” project at the University of Texas law school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Legal novels As opposed to illegal novels? No, these are works of fiction, pre-John Grisham, with legal office or courtroom settings, part of a “Law in Popular Culture” project at the University of Texas law school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-255","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=42","url_meta":{"origin":255,"position":0},"title":"The ‘Bast’ Mysteries","author":"Chas S. 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