{"id":143,"date":"2004-11-18T10:41:20","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T10:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2004-11-18T10:41:20","modified_gmt":"2004-11-18T10:41:20","slug":"the_jury_duty_model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2004\/11\/18\/the_jury_duty_model\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jury Duty Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/index.asp\">Neil Gaiman<\/a>, a British comic book writer and novelist who lives in California and is generally a witty fellow, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/2004\/11\/politics-portugal-and-no-gumbo-limbo.asp\">an interesting idea<\/a> on how to reform the whole political system:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I think that some country or other ought to try jury duty as a way of picking its politicians: if your name gets picked, and you can&#8217;t come up with a good enough excuse, you&#8217;ll have to give up four or five years of your life to helping run the country, which avoids the main problem of politics as I see it, which is that the kind of people you have to choose between and vote for are the kind of people who actually think that they ought to be running things.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you have to do to get people interested in seriously studying a proposal like this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Gaiman, a British comic book writer and novelist who lives in California and is generally a witty fellow, has an interesting idea on how to reform the whole political system: I think that some country or other ought to try jury duty as a way of picking its politicians: if your name gets picked, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}