{"id":1004,"date":"2007-01-04T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T15:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2007\/01\/04\/the-jurys-out\/"},"modified":"2007-01-04T11:30:55","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T15:30:55","slug":"the-jurys-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2007\/01\/04\/the-jurys-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jury&#8217;s Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miracle of miracles, I was able to change my jury duty! I was originally scheduled for late last summer. But since crime goes up in the summer, I figured i&#8217;d be more likely to get stuck on a trial if I served then (plus, I question the courthouse&#8217;s air-conditioning quality). I selected a replacement date the Friday before President&#8217;s Day (hoping that no trial would begin the day before a holiday weekend).<\/p>\n<p>Well, they didn&#8217;t give me the day I requested and then it fell smack dab in the middle of my newly planned trip to Mexico. I called the court yesterday expecting a fight since the paperwork clearly stated that you can&#8217;t change it twice. But the woman was incredibly friendly and not only allowed me to move it without any questions, but gave me free reign to pick any future date! I&#8217;m impressed!<\/p>\n<p>Now I can go to Mexico and suffer through Montezuma&#8217;s Revenge* without worrying that I&#8217;m shirking my civic duties!<\/p>\n<p>OK &#8211; quick observation here. Did anybody else watch FORMER (I love saying that) governor Mitt Romney&#8217;s lone walk from the state house yesterday? He practically snubbed FORMER (still love it) lieutenant governor\u00a0Kerry Healey with a quick handshake and good bye. Looking back, he also didn&#8217;t seem to\u00a0help her much during her failed run for governor (he was out of state 212 of 365 days last year &#8211; mostly promoting himself as the next presidential contender). I sense some tension there.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>*This is a serious concern of mine since my belly is of a delicate constitution&#8230;I fear even water entering my mouth while taking a shower will get me sick. oy vey.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miracle of miracles, I was able to change my jury duty! I was originally scheduled for late last summer. But since crime goes up in the summer, I figured i&#8217;d be more likely to get stuck on a trial if I served then (plus, I question the courthouse&#8217;s air-conditioning quality). I selected a replacement date [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}