{"id":700,"date":"2010-04-09T12:49:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T17:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/?p=700"},"modified":"2017-05-18T09:31:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T13:31:53","slug":"jury-duty-nj-fails-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2010\/04\/09\/jury-duty-nj-fails-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury Duty – NJ Fails Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I returned from some travel the other day to find this in the mailbox. It’s an unwelcome notice, if what I hear from many people is any indication. But this one brought some different feelings.<\/p>\n

Richard is my Dad. He passed almost two years<\/a> ago.<\/p>\n

One would think that the various state and public records of Richard’s passing would have prevented the generation of this notice, but no – it’s a fail. To underscore the failure, I recall that Richard was summoned to Jury Duty some years back. I handled the notice because he was unable to read it for himself – stroke damage had robbed him of that ability.<\/p>\n

On his behalf I had requested – and and was subsequently granted – an excuse. I cited reasons including health and ability as well as age, which alone would have sufficed\u00c2\u00a0(see the\u00c2\u00a0NJ Judiciary FAQ<\/a>). Age only goes backward in the movies, and so I figured Richard would no longer be troubled by Jury Duty.<\/p>\n

I was wrong.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking that I’m going to fill out the form and return it, requesting an excuse on account of, well, death. Perhaps they’ll get the message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I returned from some travel the other day to find this in the mailbox. It’s an unwelcome notice, if what I hear from many people is any indication. But this one brought some different feelings. Richard is my Dad. He passed almost two years ago. One would think that the various state and public records … Continue reading Jury Duty – NJ Fails Again<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[80,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}