{"id":1832,"date":"2008-11-12T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2008-11-12T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T13:48:00","slug":"jury-duty-945am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1832","title":{"rendered":"Jury duty, 9:45am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lot of glare from the window behind me, and Facebook is blocked from the county courthouse, but at least they have a semiquiet area where the Golden Girls aren&#8217;t blaring at TOP volume.  This area is much, much nicer than the old courtroom, though.  My needles got through without a second glance, although I of course had to power on my laptop.<\/p>\n<p>An hour of videos about jury service, and we&#8217;re taking a brief break before they start calling jurors.  I&#8217;ve knitted about an inch on my sock.  I didn&#8217;t want to bring Jayne knitting because I didn&#8217;t want any hats or much-needed Jayne hat needles confiscated by the Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a headache, but not a huge one, so things are going pretty well.   I don&#8217;t want to jinx it, but so far this isn&#8217;t too bad.  Back to reading John Scalzi and knitting socks.<\/p>\n<p><i>ETA: Moments after typing that, I was called for a jury in a looooong trial.  Thankfully, I was excused.  Back to the &#8220;quiet&#8221; area, which is currently blasting out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0825232\/\" target=\"blank\">The Bucket List<\/a> at top volume.  Did I mention that the &#8220;quiet&#8221; area was right next to the bathrooms?  It is hard, however, to complain about a jury selection room that provides free wireless, a snack area, and free popcorn with its afternoon movie, which is shown on a gigantic flat screen TV.  This really is luxurious.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><b>ETA-again:<\/b> Got called AGAIN and excused at the last possible minute.  WOO!  I&#8217;ve done my civic duty for another two years!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lot of glare from the window behind me, and Facebook is blocked from the county courthouse, but at least they have a semiquiet area where the Golden Girls aren&#8217;t blaring at TOP volume. This area is much, much nicer than the old courtroom, though. My needles got through without a second glance, although I of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}