{"id":6424,"date":"2015-08-24T07:11:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T07:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6424"},"modified":"2015-08-24T07:11:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T07:11:10","slug":"outdoor-learning-in-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/08\/24\/outdoor-learning-in-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor Learning in 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\">The Spectator<\/a> on August 21st, 1915:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"War is a time in which a shortage of labourers can least be borne with. \u00a0The land must not go untilled, the seed must not remain unsown, or the crops unharvested. \u00a0Many of these services can be rendered by children whose schooling is not yet over. \u00a0Care must be taken that the teachers do not lose sight of them, and that days, or parts of days, shall still be spent in the old way. \u00a0But if this is secured, the child of twelve will not be wholly a loser by the change. \u00a0He will gain in health by being more in the open air, and in skill by being early taught the elements of the industry by which in most cases he will eventually have to live.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah! \u00a0Happy days. \u00a0And who says the outdoor classroom is a new idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from The Spectator on August 21st, 1915: \"War is a time in which a shortage of labourers can least be borne with. \u00a0The land must not go untilled, the seed must not remain unsown, or the crops unharvested....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}