{"id":11,"date":"2008-02-11T17:43:12","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T22:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacfu.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/11\/jury-duty\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T17:43:12","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T22:43:12","slug":"jury-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Jury Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so this is how the day goes.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>7:45a Summons was scheduled for 7:45 and that&#8217;s when I arrive.&#160; I wait in line for 1 hour before I even get in to sit.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>8:45a Explanations of how the day is going to go, and procedures therein.&#160; After a good :15 mins of talk, she CALLS A BREAK!&#160; Not even a smoke break, just bathroom and grab some chips.&#160; ::rollseyes:<\/p>\n<p>9:15a The first names are called.&#160; I sleep.<\/p>\n<p>10:00a My name is called up to court 402.&#160; &quot;Wait outside until invited in.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>11:15a Still outside the courtroom.&#160; Finally told the case was settled and to go back down and wait, possible for another courtroom.&#160; :sigh:<\/p>\n<p>11:19a Get back into the gathering room, and see the &quot;My Best Friend&#8217;s Wedding&quot; is the movie they chose to play.&#160; God help me, as if not irritated enough.<\/p>\n<p>12:30a Dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the thing.&#160; You would THINK due to people hating being there as it is, they would make it a bit more comfortable.&#160; ie, no ceiling drips and wet chairs, more than one metal detector to get in so I&#8217;m not in line a damn hour plus just to get in the place, maybe even a cafeteria and not a &quot;store with chips.&quot;&#160; Hell even some tables for people to play chess or cards or something to pass time.&#160; Then again it is Detroit who is reigned supreme by your boy Quame Kilpatrick.&#160; Maybe he should look at updating some of the public facilities and not banging and killing hookers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so this is how the day goes.&#160; 7:45a Summons was scheduled for 7:45 and that&#8217;s when I arrive.&#160; I wait in line for 1 hour before I even get in to sit.&#160; 8:45a Explanations of how the day is going to go, and procedures therein.&#160; After a good :15 mins of talk, she CALLS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}