{"id":376,"date":"2010-01-23T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=376"},"modified":"2010-01-23T06:27:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T11:27:50","slug":"jurors-lounge-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Jurors&#8217; Lounge Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being called for jury duty is never convenient, but there are two benefits. One is that whenever I have been empaneled and have served, I am each time impressed by the conscientiousness of my fellow jurors, the seriousness with which we all perform our job, and the fact that we live within a democratic system that calls upon ordinary citizens for this task. The other is that I get to pack a bag with work, lesson plans, and a sketchbook, and spend hours with them in a quiet room. And on my lunch hour I go to the National Gallery of Art around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>This turned out to be a slow day, though, and a lot of us were dismissed\u00a0mid-afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/JurorsLounge1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-379\" title=\"JurorsLounge\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/JurorsLounge1.jpg\" alt=\"JurorsLounge\" width=\"480\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/JurorsLounge1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/JurorsLounge1-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being called for jury duty is never convenient, but there are two benefits. One is that whenever I have been empaneled and have served, I am each time impressed by the conscientiousness of my fellow jurors, the seriousness with which we all perform our job, and the fact that we live within a democratic system<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=376\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[47,17],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-dc","tag-penink"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}