{"id":7501,"date":"2011-12-25T00:41:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T00:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7501"},"modified":"2011-12-25T00:41:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T00:41:28","slug":"lessons-over-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7501","title":{"rendered":"Lessons Over Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/xmas_bells.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/180;margin: 6px 10px 5px 1px; display: inline; float: left\" title=\"Christmas Bells\" alt=\"Christmas Bells\" align=\"left\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/xmas_bells_thumb.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a>Well, I\u2019ll believe it when it happens, but apart from Christmas Eve and Christmas Day I\u2019ve got a full diary this coming week!<\/p>\n<p>Between Monday (Boxing Day) and Sunday (New Year\u2019s Day) I\u2019ve got 30 hours, with maybe another four or more in the pipeline. You\u2019ve got to make hay while the sun shines in this business, so I\u2019m more than happy to do it \u2013 after all, how many of these pupils would have thought about going elsewhere if I didn\u2019t?<\/p>\n<p>Most of them have got tests coming up from next week through the first couple of weeks of the New Year, and are cramming the lessons, One is home from University and has a test booked before he goes back. And five are non-Christian, so it\u2019s business as usual for them (one is a new pupil and has her first lesson booked). I doubt that many will cancel.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from a bit of last-minute juggling today \u2013 one of which was me moving things around a stinking cold I\u2019ve picked up \u2013 they\u2019re queuing up for available slots! It\u2019s great!<\/p>\n<p>The good thing is that another handful have stopped lessons since last week because of the money-over-Christmas situation, and another had a serious infection and has moved his test back a few weeks, so the New Year is looking very healthy, too.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good thing I enjoy this job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I\u2019ll believe it when it happens, but apart from Christmas Eve and Christmas Day I\u2019ve got a full diary this coming week! Between Monday (Boxing Day) and Sunday (New Year\u2019s Day) I\u2019ve got 30 hours, with maybe another four or more in the pipeline. You\u2019ve got to make hay while the sun shines in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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":[80,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-general-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}