{"id":1049,"date":"2005-04-11T23:04:26","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T22:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/04\/11\/humour_why_school_is_good_for_you"},"modified":"2005-04-11T23:04:26","modified_gmt":"2005-04-11T22:04:26","slug":"humour_why_school_is_good_for_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/04\/11\/humour_why_school_is_good_for_you","title":{"rendered":"Humour: why school is good for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered the <a href=\"http:\/\/bradfordmuslim.blogspot.com\/\">Bradford Muslim<\/a> blog yesterday (that is, about two hours ago) through Deenport; brother Atif Imtiaz has an excellent bit of humour about <a href=\"http:\/\/bradfordmuslim.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/why-school-is-good-for-you.html\">Why School is Good For You<\/a>.  If you don&#8217;t understand irony, don&#8217;t bother clicking the last link.<\/p>\n<p>On the same subject, the BBC finally showed its Panorama yesterday (after postponing it for several weeks due to the ever-so-important report on possible impediments to Prince Charles&#8217; and Camilla&#8217;s civil marriage), about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/panorama\/4241795.stm\">Why Bullies Win<\/a>, which is about the appalling record of British state schools in dealing with bullying.  I saw the programme and it was really shocking stuff &#8211; kids being terrified of going to school, some killing themselves or trying to, and parents being told it is their fault or their children&#8217;s, and the bizarre approaches to the subject proposed by some intellectuals.  It&#8217;s necessary viewing for anyone thinking of sending their children into this system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered the Bradford Muslim blog yesterday (that is, about two hours ago) through Deenport; brother Atif Imtiaz has an excellent bit of humour about Why School is Good For You. If you don&#8217;t&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-gV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}