Guess what? Husband received a jury summons for the dates of September 10 through 14.<\/p>\n
There is a way of requesting exemption because one cares for a child between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., but the court requires the name and birthday of said child (or children). Little One hasn’t arrived yet, but she certainly will have (I hope) by then! Since he needs to submit his request now, though, this impending arrival may not qualify.<\/p>\n
He already served as a phone stand-by for a different court earlier this year. But the wording of the current document is bureaucratic (i.e., unclear) enough that he’s going to call tomorrow to request exemption.<\/p>\n
They’ve got to say yes. Please. It’s his third jury summons<\/em> since moving here three years ago, and he fulfilled his duty the first two times. <\/p>\n I did learn that pregnancy apparently doesn’t exempt a woman (but I assume if you are called to show up and they see you’re pregnant, you’re unlikely to be chosen); breastfeeding, however, does. What if they won’t excuse a man who is just about to experience the birth of his first child and will be on leave from work taking care of his family? Ugh.<\/p>\n They might excuse him. Sometimes, though, I struggle to remain in the present and to remember to deal with what is<\/em> real at the moment. It’s very tempting to fret, but absolutely not useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Guess what? Husband received a jury summons for the dates of September 10 through 14. There is a way of requesting exemption because one cares for a child between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., but the court requires the name and birthday of said child (or children). Little One hasn’t arrived yet, but she certainly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11333,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions\/11333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}