{"id":16663,"date":"2022-07-23T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=16663"},"modified":"2022-07-08T11:41:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T18:41:16","slug":"the-grand-jury-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=16663","title":{"rendered":"The Grand Jury Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the most important things that came out of my time on the Grand Jury was learning about the diverse group of people that made up the jury. In summary if this group is representative of the population in general then we are in good shape. The group was solid, intelligent, thoughtful, polite and considerate. Any one of them would have been able to serve in Congress without lowering its standards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The staff and the assistant county attorneys that ran the operation were also far above my expectation. Being a small cog in the wheels of justice for a few months gave me an insight into the enormity of the task they face.<\/p>\n\n\n

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At the end of our four months of almost unpaid service we were give this beautiful certificate. I’m sure that someday it will be worthless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the most important things that came out of my time on the Grand Jury was learning about the diverse group of people that made up the jury. In summary if this group is representative of the population in general then we are in good shape. The group was solid, intelligent, thoughtful, polite and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[311],"class_list":["post-16663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-simon-says","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/F4BA7B1B-A8C8-49C1-8C7D-2AD102B4E42E_1_201_a-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-4kL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16665,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions\/16665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}