{"id":998,"date":"2007-07-23T22:08:05","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T03:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=998"},"modified":"2007-07-23T22:20:34","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T03:20:34","slug":"jury-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=998","title":{"rendered":"Jury Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had six free days since I was designated to sit for jury duty. I wasn&#8217;t needed. That ended tonight when I called to see if I would have to report tomorrow. I do. Bummer. I had planned to take my Father-in-law to visit my daughter in the Twin Cities where he will get his last glimpse of her as a mother-to-be. She&#8217;s going to make me a grandfather for the first time this September. Alas, I&#8217;ll have to cool my heals in the jury &#8220;lounge&#8221; and Dad will have to sit home watching our newly installed cable channels trying to keep cool. <\/p>\n<p>Dad will be with us till Friday when we cart him accross Minnesota and pass him along to Claudia&#8217;s brother who will take him to his home in Bismarck. We&#8217;ll head back to Duluth and I told Claudia we&#8217;d have to watch the latest Harry Potter movie that night. Saturday Claudia helps host a baby shower for our daughter. Sunday we&#8217;ll take her back to the Cities and we&#8217;ll watch a matinee of Spamalot with Claudia&#8217;s friends from the Minnesota Safety Council. After that we&#8217;ll have a couple days to organize ourselves for our summer vacation. We got our passports finally so we can travel to Canada and arrouse less suspicion. I&#8217;ve grown a van dyke and look a little more middle eastern.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime I&#8217;m still scraping and sanding our house to apply at least some spot priming to our window framesbefore our departure. It was beastly hot today so Dad and I quit by noon. I have to use him before I lose him.<\/p>\n<p>I put in a call to another Faribault School Board member this afternoon. He didn&#8217;t add a lot to my knowledge but confirmed and added to a story I had heard earlier. Apparently Supt. Dixon asked the City Council for money to build a &#8220;youth center.&#8221; The Faribault City Council agreed to help finance it but after a while they got to wondering about how their money was spent.<\/p>\n<p>When they asked the School District about the youth center the District explained that it was a school cafeteria. Evidently the Council was extremely embarassed at having been taken in and decided not to make a fuss. <\/p>\n<p>It works the other way in Duluth. Our City Council asked the school district for money for the Heritage Hockey Center &#8211; anything for hockey you know- and the School Board, which was elected to save the East High School Hockey coach, handed over $1.5 million for the project. They didn&#8217;t even need to have a bond referendum to raise the money. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had six free days since I was designated to sit for jury duty. I wasn&#8217;t needed. That ended tonight when I called to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}