{"id":3630,"date":"2008-07-30T22:23:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T05:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2010-04-01T20:44:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T03:44:50","slug":"ironically-ironman-is-just-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3630\/ironically-ironman-is-just-a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Ironically, Ironman is Just a Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love the word Irony.\u00a0 Maybe its because Ironman has been my favorite song forever.\u00a0 Or maybe it’s because I thoroughly enjoyed the movie Ironman.\u00a0 Oh, wait.\u00a0 That just takes us back to the song Ironman, which is the theme song of the movie.\u00a0 No, I know why I love irony.\u00a0 It’s because all around us life is full of irony if only we will pause to notice it.\u00a0 Want some examples?<\/p>\n

Take the three original learned professions, the priesthood, the law, and medicine.<\/p>\n

Priests keep our most private confidences, and priests today are known as violating our most sacred honor.\u00a0 Lawyers, who were originally called to be ambassadors of justice are today known as the greatest of liars and truth is no longer admissible in a courtroom.\u00a0 Doctors, called to save lives and preserve health, practice in hospitals where the American Medical Association claims 300,000 people die every year, the result of doctor negligence.<\/p>\n

How about something closer to home, like real estate?<\/p>\n

The mortgage industry helped people achieve the American dream, the dream of home ownership.\u00a0 Today because of astonishing levels of greed in the mortgage industry (and lack of adult supervision), the same people who were helped by the mortgage industry are now in foreclosure and losing their dream.<\/p>\n

And then there are real estate agents.\u00a0 First you have the word “real.”\u00a0 If agents are real, they why do so many have a reputation for being phony?\u00a0 And you have the word “agent.”\u00a0 An agent represents a client, protecting that client exclusively in every way, including financially. Just like a lawyer who can only represent a plaintiff or a defendant, but not both, an agent represents his client and not the opponent.\u00a0 The next step of irony is to create a system called “dual agency.”\u00a0 Voila!\u00a0 We can represent both.\u00a0 I suggest lawyers create dual representation, too. That way lawyers could practice lying to themselves as they promoted the plaintiff’s version of the facts on one side of the courtroom, and then the defendant’s version on the other side of the courtroom.<\/p>\n

I love irony.\u00a0 How about a political and judicial system that ignores Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love the word Irony.\u00a0 Maybe its because Ironman has been my favorite song forever.\u00a0 Or maybe it’s because I thoroughly enjoyed the movie Ironman.\u00a0 Oh, wait.\u00a0 That just takes us back to the song Ironman, which is the theme song of the movie.\u00a0 No, I know why I love irony.\u00a0 It’s because all around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":[5],"tags":[468],"class_list":{"0":"post-3630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","7":"tag-sequim-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3117,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3117\/success-is-knowing-who-your-friend-is\/","url_meta":{"origin":3630,"position":0},"title":"Success is Knowing Who Your Friend Is","author":"Sean Purcell","date":"May 14, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Back on Monday, Jeff Brown wrote a post explaining in no uncertain terms why some real estate agents are failing.\u00a0 If you have not read that post yet you need to take a long look in the mirror,\u00a0get your priorities straight, stop reading this post and go back to Jeff's.\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Marketing"","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18334,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18334\/overnight-news-big-tech-censorship-is-made-possible-by-liability-limitation-ditch-it-and-the-whole-corporate-world-becomes-responsible-and-responsive-overnight\/","url_meta":{"origin":3630,"position":1},"title":"Overnight News: Big-tech censorship is made possible by liability limitation. 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