{"id":694,"date":"2003-03-06T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-06T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2003\/03\/06\/jury-duty-day-4\/"},"modified":"2003-03-06T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-06T17:37:00","slug":"jury-duty-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2003\/03\/06\/jury-duty-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury duty: Day 4."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after getting to the courts at the correct time, 10:25am we 12 jurors sat around for another hour and a bit twiddling thumbs whilst certain things we can&#8217;t know about happened.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we did get into court before lunch and witnessed the defence lawyers pull the witless witness&#8217; story apart. I half felt for the fella. But only half. The second witness of the day, in the afternoon was far brighter.<\/p>\n<p>It was fun watching the defence lawyers stalking their prey and ripping them to shreds. It was almost like watching Wildlife on One and the lawyers were a pride of lions eyeing up the wilderbeast.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m afraid this is all the detail I&#8217;m going to go into. I&#8217;m not going to say if I ultimately believe anything the witnesses said or not. etc.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we all got out of the court at about 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>As we left, we saw on the corner of the road that there was a bit of an accident. It wasn&#8217;t until we got a bit closer did we find that it was a coach which had run over a bicycle.. it looked a mess.. I tried not to look. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>One of the other jurors said, &#8220;Oh, not another one. The same thing happened only a couple of weeks ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s enough of today. I&#8217;m back at home writing this on my laptop waiting for the news to come on at 6pm. This evening&#8217;s delights include cooking two bits of pork, eating one of them and watching Buffy and Angel on Sky One.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if you&#8217;re reading this, Alec, I taped last weeks as you requested and have it on an SVHS tape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after getting to the courts at the correct time, 10:25am we 12 jurors sat around for another hour and a bit twiddling thumbs whilst certain things we can&#8217;t know about happened. Anyway, we did get into court before lunch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2003\/03\/06\/jury-duty-day-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Kvvs-bc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}