{"id":12765,"date":"2017-08-03T09:37:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T15:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=12765"},"modified":"2017-08-03T07:44:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T13:44:35","slug":"civic-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/civic-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Civic Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/juryduty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12766\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/juryduty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/juryduty.jpg 715w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/juryduty-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/a>Last week, I was scheduled to do my part in our democratic society by showing up for jury duty. \u00a0Where I live, jury duty is a week long commitment, though you may not be required to attend each day. \u00a0You do need to check in twice a day, to see if you are needed in the morning and again in the afternoon. \u00a0For someone with a 50+ mile commute to work, it didn&#8217;t make sense to go in even if I wasn&#8217;t needed in the morning, on the off chance I would be needed in the afternoon, which happened to me last time I had jury duty in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The whole experience was a bit of a bust, though it did enable me to keep up with my busy plans for the week. \u00a0I went in Monday morning, one panel was called, which I didn&#8217;t make, and then they let us go by 11:30, which gave me enough time to go home and change before heading out to Wrigley Field for exciting crosstown action.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230; that was it. \u00a0Every night, I either called or checked the website and was told I wasn&#8217;t needed. \u00a0Every afternoon, I would do the same before lunch and got the same response. \u00a0A week of working from home, with the occasional baseball game sprinkled in. \u00a0 I had prepared for the week by stocking up on books, but only made it through one. \u00a0All in all, a complete waste of time. \u00a0We&#8217;ll see if it takes another 14 years to get called again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I was scheduled to do my part in our democratic society by showing up for jury duty. \u00a0Where I live, jury duty is a week long commitment, though you may not be required to attend each day. \u00a0You do need to check in twice a day, to see if you are needed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[551,595],"class_list":["post-12765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkeytalk","tag-work","tag-wrigley-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12772,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765\/revisions\/12772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}