{"id":134,"date":"2013-09-17T06:33:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T20:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=134"},"modified":"2013-09-17T06:33:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T20:33:59","slug":"how-about-one-week-school-holidays-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/09\/17\/how-about-one-week-school-holidays-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"How About One Week School Holidays a Year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 261px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.radiosydney.com.au\/wpimages\/wp0c1c5685_05.jpg\" width=\"261\" height=\"175\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Truant officers \u201ccatch\u201d of the very near future!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I guess you know you are really getting old and (I\u2019d say grumpy..but its probably<br \/>\ncopyrighted or something) &#8230; when the marauding hoards of school holidaying little<br \/>\npeople begin to annoy you. \u00a0Of course if you are a parent its a wonderful time for<br \/>\nreally bonding with the youngsters screaming or playing loud music throughout the<br \/>\nnormally calm house!<\/p>\n<p>Its only us confirmed old bachelor&#8217;s who are just plain driven insane by mega-<wbr \/>packed<br \/>\nbuses, long queues and what seems to just be noise, noise, noise in the normally<br \/>\ncomfortably moderately less stressful world around us. Then there&#8217;s the sheer volume<br \/>\nof these Lilliputians &#8211;<wbr \/>\u00a0\u00a0their everywhere en masse swearing and spitting at us older<br \/>\npeople (or is it the other way around..) chewing gum and generally worshipping<br \/>\nSatan etc.<\/p>\n<p>Now of course if I was twenty years younger I\u2019d be telling myself to \u201cget &#8230; you old<br \/>\nfart\u201d, but as their is little other benefit to getting older I think its only fair that I make<br \/>\nuse of the make-<wbr \/>life-<wbr \/>miserable-<wbr \/>for-<wbr \/>young-<wbr \/>people right afforded to me and bring some<br \/>\nsanity back to our shopping centres and every other public area.<\/p>\n<p>What I am proposing is not unreasonable: a couple of days off for the kiddies just<br \/>\nbefore Christmas day, then straight back to school a few days after. We could<br \/>\ngradually move school attendance up to just the day off for Xmas and if we really<br \/>\nwanted the world to ourselves, parental units could just drop the pressies off at<br \/>\nschool during play lunch Xmas day. Truant Officers could be given powers of<br \/>\nimmediate arrest and real hand cuffs.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it would be hard to convince the young that this curbing of the School Hols<br \/>\nwas a great idea, so we could trick them into attending 365 days of school with clever<br \/>\nincentives: yes you will get a new iPhone..but you have to read every single book first!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess you know you are really getting old and (I\u2019d say grumpy..but its probably copyrighted or something) &#8230; when the marauding hoards of school holidaying little people begin to annoy you. \u00a0Of course if you are a parent its a wonderful time for really bonding with the youngsters screaming or playing loud music throughout &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/09\/17\/how-about-one-week-school-holidays-a-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How About One Week School Holidays a Year?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}