{"id":7619,"date":"2012-01-02T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7619"},"modified":"2012-01-02T12:00:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T12:00:23","slug":"a-good-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7619","title":{"rendered":"A Good Start!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sad_smiley_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 80px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 80\/80;margin: 6px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; float: left;\" title=\"Sad Smiley Face\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sad_smiley_2_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Sad Smiley Face\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" align=\"left\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a>Well, almost \u2013 I did a few lessons yesterday, as well.<\/p>\n<p>My first pupil of the day was a no-show. I texted, phoned (answerphone), rang the bell (heard the tinkle), and waited for 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Still, at least they\u2019ve paid me for a block of lessons.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, I\u2019m a soft touch when it comes to charging for cancellations, and if they have a legitimate reason then I may well waive my terms &amp; conditions policy on the matter. After all, teaching them for around 40 hours with one cock-up is more cost-effective than upsetting them and having them leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, almost \u2013 I did a few lessons yesterday, as well. My first pupil of the day was a no-show. I texted, phoned (answerphone), rang the bell (heard the tinkle), and waited for 20 minutes. Still, at least they\u2019ve paid me for a block of lessons. Mind you, I\u2019m a soft touch when it comes [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-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\/7619","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=7619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}