{"id":31752,"date":"2016-12-29T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31752"},"modified":"2016-12-19T08:15:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T13:15:05","slug":"qotd-not-homeschooled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/12\/29\/qotd-not-homeschooled\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Not Homeschooled"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Tell me that one about how my home schooled kids aren&#8217;t going to be socialized again. I love that one. It&#8217;s a hardy perennial. Love that shite. Tell me again about how screwed my kids are because they&#8217;re not pressing meaningless buttons 24\/7 on an iSlab on their Jitter stream or their FriendFace page.Tell me about how they&#8217;ll never be popular enough to be bullied if I&#8217;m not careful. They won&#8217;t even be eligible to get <a href=\"http:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2015\/06\/12\/health\/brunswick-elementary-school-reports-case-of-pertussis\/\" target=\"_blank\">whooping cough<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me the one about how my kids won&#8217;t be able to go on field trips to the museum if they&#8217;re not enrolled in school. I love that one, too. It&#8217;s totes adorb. It&#8217;s my favorite, except for my other favorites, which are my favorite favorites.  My children never get the opportunity to be chaperoned by <a href=\"http:\/\/courier.mainelymediallc.com\/news\/2015-06-11\/Front_Page\/Biddeford_schools_may_look_at_field_trip_protocol.html\" target=\"_blank\">someone on the sex offender registry<\/a>. Of course that&#8217;s better than being left at the museum like the other kid in the same story. I think. Pretty sure. Maybe the kid they left behind actually looked at something on the wall in the museum after the batteries in his iBrick ran out. Hey, could happen.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m with you, though; I doubt it. We all know if a school-age child&#8217;s iBinky battery runs out of electricity, they immediately lie down on the floor and die.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sippicancottage.blogspot.ca\/2015\/06\/not-homeschooled.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Not Homeschooled&#8221;, <em>Sippican Cottage<\/em><\/a>, 2015-06-15.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell me that one about how my home schooled kids aren&#8217;t going to be socialized again. I love that one. It&#8217;s a hardy perennial. Love that shite. Tell me again about how screwed my kids are because they&#8217;re not pressing meaningless buttons 24\/7 on an iSlab on their Jitter stream or their FriendFace page.Tell me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":""},"categories":[79,57,28,41,15],"tags":[374,547],"class_list":["post-31752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-humour","category-media","category-quotations","category-technology","tag-children","tag-smartphones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8g8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31753,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31752\/revisions\/31753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}