{"id":3090,"date":"2012-12-12T09:59:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T15:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=3090"},"modified":"2012-12-12T09:59:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T15:59:31","slug":"book-22-of-52-the-runaway-jury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/book-22-of-52-the-runaway-jury\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 22 (of 52) &#8211; The Runaway Jury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3091\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3091\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3091\" alt=\"The_Runaway_Jury_John_Grisham\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/The_Runaway_Jury_John_Grisham.jpg\" width=\"241\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/The_Runaway_Jury_John_Grisham.jpg 241w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/The_Runaway_Jury_John_Grisham-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Runaway Jury &#8211; John Grisham<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the early 1990s, John Grisham was at the top of the bestsellers lists and I was along for the ride.\u00a0 Starting with <em>The Firm<\/em> in 1993 and continuing through <em>The Rainmaker<\/em> in 1996, I had plowed through four* of his first\u00a0six novels in\u00a0four years time.\u00a0 But then, for some reason, I stopped.\u00a0 <em>The Runaway Jury<\/em> was book number seven for Grisham, and, by all accounts, it has been sitting in my To Read drawer for quite some time.\u00a0 Some 16 years after its release, it was time to give it a chance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">*Although my records indicate otherwise, I&#8217;m pretty sure that I read <em>The Client<\/em> too.\u00a0 That would put me at\u00a0five out of six in the same four year time period.<\/p>\n<p>My time away from Grisham seems to have done me well, as I was thouroughly engrossed by this book, the tale of a tobacco trial, the defense operatives trying to ensure a verdict through any means necessary, and the jury led by a man who has a hidden agenda.\u00a0 Grisham tells an interesting tale of deceit and\u00a0lawlessness\u00a0in showing\u00a0how the tobacco industry will go to any lengths necessary to keep all judgments on their side.\u00a0 One has to wonder how much of this is truly fiction and if the judicial process can be so easily manipulated.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Runaway Jury<\/em> was a fun read and I&#8217;ve already moved the movie adaptation to the top of my Netflix queue so I can revisit this story and its characters soon.\u00a0 I have a strong feeling that it will not be another 16 years before I pick up a John Grisham book again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 1990s, John Grisham was at the top of the bestsellers lists and I was along for the ride.\u00a0 Starting with The Firm in 1993 and continuing through The Rainmaker in 1996, I had plowed through four* of his first\u00a0six novels in\u00a0four years time.\u00a0 But then, for some reason, I stopped.\u00a0 The Runaway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[707,1642,2843,706,2842,2841],"class_list":["post-3090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-39","tag-john-grisham","tag-netflix","tag-the-client","tag-the-firm","tag-the-rainmaker","tag-the-runaway-jury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3092,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions\/3092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}