{"id":32944,"date":"2025-08-30T16:15:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=32944"},"modified":"2025-08-30T16:15:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:15:52","slug":"one-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=32944","title":{"rendered":"One sentence&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230; got a letter from the court today with one sentence: &#8220;you are permanently excused from jury duty&#8221;&#8230;yeah, I know you&#8217;re probably going to say everyone should do their civic duty and serve on juries&#8230;all I say to that is I&#8217;ve done my civic duty my entire life paying my taxes and volunteering at my kids schools, running the AYSO league in Kentwood, coaching soccer and baseball teams, running a cub scout pack and serving on more building committees than I can count&#8230;so no, I do not feel guilty using a legal loophole that was put in the jury process just for old folks&#8230;I am old after all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230; got a letter from the court today with one sentence: &#8220;you are permanently excused from jury duty&#8221;&#8230;yeah, I know you&#8217;re probably going to say everyone should do their civic duty and serve on juries&#8230;all I say to that is I&#8217;ve done my civic duty my entire life paying my taxes and volunteering at my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=32944\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One sentence&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-32944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32945,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32944\/revisions\/32945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}