{"id":59,"date":"2009-11-12T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/road-to-california\/the-jury-process-at-road\/"},"modified":"2009-11-12T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T18:30:00","slug":"the-jury-process-at-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/12\/the-jury-process-at-road\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jury Process at Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[<!--StartFragment-->  \n\n<p><\/p>\n\n  \n\n<p><o:p>As far as I know we are the only show that juries the entries on the Internet.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>We have three quilters who jury the entries.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>I am one of the jurists; another is in Virginia and this year another was in Massachusetts.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>Dave has written a program that allows us to do the process by computer.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">   <\/span>Sometimes we actually look at the quilts in our \u201cJammies\u201d at home.<\/o:p><\/p>\n\n  \n\n<p>I feel that our jury is very well balanced.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>Traditional Quilts really appeal to me.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>Our second jurist is involved in the jury and judging process in several national shows and is experienced in jurying both Traditional, Innovative and Art.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>This year our third jurist really enjoys the art aspect of quilting.<\/p>\n\n  \n\n<p>The computer divides the entries into categories.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>We the jurors can see the artist statement, methods of construction, design basis and both photos of each entry, but not the makers name or address.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>On the first pass through the category we can mark accepted, not accepted or undecided.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>We do not know how the other jurists are voting until after we have completed the category.<\/p>\n\n  \n\n<p>Our program accepts entries that all three jurors accept, declines entries that all three jurors decline.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>Then we begin analyzing the entries that we differ on until we have accepted our maximum number.<\/p>\n\n  \n\n<p>Our judging takes place just two days before the show begins.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>We can only accept the number of quilts that can be judged within the two days.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>That is how we determine how many quilts to accept.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>Sometimes to reach that number we have to eliminate some really good quilts.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>And that certainly was the case this year!!<\/p>\n\n  \n\n<p><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n\n  \n\n<p><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n\n  \n\n<p><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n\n  <!--EndFragment-->]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-road-to-california"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}