{"id":29,"date":"2014-05-19T14:36:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T13:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2016-04-23T06:00:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T05:00:54","slug":"beginnings-and-endings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Beginnings and Endings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_32\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/students.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32\" src=\"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/students.jpg\" alt=\"St Bede's Sociology girls\" width=\"234\" height=\"175\" data-wp-pid=\"32\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St Bede&#8217;s Sociology girls<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I said farewell to my lovely Sixth form students this week and it made me realise that we have now started the process of saying goodbye. Our leavers theme was \u2018being brave\u2019; to take chances and try all the experiences that a new part of your life has to offer. I can\u2019t think of a better piece of advice to give to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>But saying goodbye also means that you will be leaving people behind, and that\u2019s the really hard part. So good luck to my students with their own beginnings and endings, and thank you to our friends and families, who understand our need to travel, and to everyone who is \u2018being brave\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I said farewell to my lovely Sixth form students this week and it made me realise that we have now started the process of saying goodbye. Our leavers theme was \u2018being brave\u2019; to take chances and try all the experiences &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/?p=29\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4BBYQ-t","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkerfamilytravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}