{"id":39,"date":"2005-03-16T12:48:19","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T12:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=39"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:23:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:23:04","slug":"jury-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2005\/03\/jury-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"jury duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"naked tree.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/archives\/naked tree.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"370\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right:10px\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nA few Fridays back I served jury duty at the State Supreme Court in Brooklyn. I arrived on time and 8 hours later was sent home. Despite not being selected to be on a jury I was dismissed having &#8220;fulfilled my obligation.&#8221;<br \/>\nIt was INDEED boring but I was able to pass the time reading and sketching. In addition to drawing the tree above I was able to make healthy headway into the 600 something page DeKooning biography. Interesting so far. The guy never really intended on becoming a fine artist. Started off as a commercial artist (and a rather successful one even in the midst of the Depression) before he became romanced by modern art (particularly Picasso.)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"dekonning.jpg\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/archives\/dekonning.jpg\" width=\"151\" height=\"225\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nAnyhow&#8230;book jacket below:<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few Fridays back I served jury duty at the State Supreme Court in Brooklyn. I arrived on time and 8 hours later was sent home. Despite not being selected to be on a jury I was dismissed having &#8220;fulfilled my obligation.&#8221; It was INDEED boring but I was able to pass the time reading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[239],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}