{"id":1066,"date":"2005-12-29T16:36:44","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T21:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2005\/12\/29\/you-said-duty\/"},"modified":"2005-12-29T16:36:44","modified_gmt":"2005-12-29T21:36:44","slug":"you-said-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/you-said-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"You said duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in danger of jinxing it here, but I&#8217;ve never been summoned to jury duty. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s all of the moving around I did between ages 17 and 27, but a jury summons has yet to darken my mailbox. At $6\/day for pay, who&#8217;d want to do it anyway? Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news8austin.com\/content\/top_stories\/default.asp?ArID=152731\">all that changes on Jan. 1<\/a> when a juror pay raise and several other laws, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oag.state.tx.us\/oagnews\/release.php?id=1342\">mandatory open government training for public officials<\/a>. Texas jurors are in for a $34\/day pay raise, their first in 51 years. If you were a juror for every week day of the year, you&#8217;d gross $10,400. Still not much to go on, is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in danger of jinxing it here, but I&#8217;ve never been summoned to jury duty. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s all of the moving around I did between ages 17 and 27, but a jury summons has yet to darken my mailbox. At $6\/day for pay, who&#8217;d want to do it anyway? Well, all that <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/you-said-duty\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-hc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}