{"id":1247,"date":"2008-06-02T23:38:16","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T03:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2008-06-02T23:38:16","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T03:38:16","slug":"this-would-not-happen-south-of-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/02\/this-would-not-happen-south-of-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"This would not happen south of the border"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Most unexpectedly heartening moment:  When I realized that of the twelve final selected jurors, all of whom were given the choice of swearing on a Bible or merely making an oath of affirmation, <em>every last one of them<\/em> chose the non-faith-based alternative.  I did miss the usual irony of seeing people swearing to tell the truth on a book of falsehoods \u2014 in an institution supposedly predicated on the pursuit of fact and empiricism, no less \u2014 but I was glad to pay that price if it means that so many of our population have opted out of superstition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/\">Peter Watts<\/a>, writing on <a href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/2008\/06\/jury-duty-day-1.html\">his Jury Duty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Go Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Most unexpectedly heartening moment: When I realized that of the twelve final selected jurors, all of whom were given the choice of swearing on a Bible or merely making an oath of affirmation, every last one of them chose the non-faith-based alternative. I did miss the usual irony of seeing people swearing to tell the truth on a book of&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/02\/this-would-not-happen-south-of-the-border\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[61,44,106,107,158],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-canada","tag-canadian-law","tag-law","tag-religion","tag-the-masses","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-k7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}