{"id":185183,"date":"2011-09-18T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/09\/18\/yummy-schadenfreude\/"},"modified":"2011-09-18T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T22:11:00","slug":"yummy-schadenfreude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/09\/18\/yummy-schadenfreude\/","title":{"rendered":"Yummy Schadenfreude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A researcher at a pharmaceutical company was laid off shortly after another company acquired his employer, and shut down their research center.<\/p>\n<p>Well, a few days ago, he was contacted by the blokes wot fired him, and asked to testify on their behalf in some patent litigation.<\/p>\n<p>They offered a consulting fee and legal representation, but <a href=\"http:\/\/orgprepdaily.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/06\/the-taste-of-their-own-medicine\/\">he declined, and contacted the attorneys for the other side<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His last sentence, &#8220;<i>I explained that I do not want money but maybe they could re-evaluate how they are going to treat the R&amp;D inventors in the future. You know, in case they need them again<\/i>,&#8221; is a hoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A researcher at a pharmaceutical company was laid off shortly after another company acquired his employer, and shut down their research center. Well, a few days ago, he was contacted by the blokes wot fired him, and asked to testify on their behalf in some patent litigation. They offered a consulting fee and legal representation, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1013,1074,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","category-medical","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}