{"id":18263,"date":"2009-05-14T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/05\/14\/parents-billed-when-kids-miss-school-pay-for-play\/"},"modified":"2009-05-14T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T10:00:01","slug":"parents-billed-when-kids-miss-school-pay-for-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090514-01\/?p=18263","title":{"rendered":"Parents billed when kids miss school: Pay for play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Scotts Valley school system is asking parents to compensate the district <a href=\"http:\/\/www.napavalleyregister.com\/articles\/2007\/03\/09\/news\/national\/doc45f1646272164939961249.txt\"> when they take their kids out of school to go on vacation<\/a>. Adds a new wrinkle to the phrase &#8220;pay for play&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p> I remember the days when we were taught the difference between the things you <i>must<\/i> do (obligations, responsibilities) and the things you <i>want<\/i> to do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scotts Valley school system is asking parents to compensate the district when they take their kids out of school to go on vacation. Adds a new wrinkle to the phrase &#8220;pay for play&#8221;. I remember the days when we were taught the difference between the things you must do (obligations, responsibilities) and the things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-18263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The Scotts Valley school system is asking parents to compensate the district when they take their kids out of school to go on vacation. Adds a new wrinkle to the phrase &#8220;pay for play&#8221;. I remember the days when we were taught the difference between the things you must do (obligations, responsibilities) and the things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}