{"id":2254,"date":"2018-05-08T00:44:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T00:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2018-05-08T00:44:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T00:44:12","slug":"close-call-for-jury-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2254","title":{"rendered":"Close Call for Jury Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking forward to possibly serving on a jury in Jefferson County, but after spending an entire day on hard benches sitting through the jury selection process, I missed being selected by just 2 numbers.  I was number 15, but there&#8217;s only 13 seats in the jury box.<\/p>\n<p>The case was a meth head that violated a restraining order and robbed some stuff.  He was apparently going to plead &#8220;the meth made me do it&#8221;.  I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t have to sit through the case.<\/p>\n<p>The attorneys, the judge, and the jury seemed to be reasonable people, so he&#8217;ll get a fair trial.  Unfortunately, there&#8217;s not a lot our society can do for a meth addict besides sending him to jail.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking forward to possibly serving on a jury in Jefferson County, but after spending an entire day on hard benches sitting through the jury selection process, I missed being selected by just 2 numbers. I was number 15, but there&#8217;s only 13 seats in the jury box. The case was a meth head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions\/2256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}