{"id":113,"date":"2005-09-01T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2005-09-01T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T18:37:00","slug":"going-to-israeli-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/01\/going-to-israeli-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to Israeli School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The start of the semester has been full, including 20 hours of teaching in the first 3 days, besides various student life responsibilities. When it slows up, I hope to have time to blog more. Today was the first day of first grade for our two oldest, Luke and Mark. They got on the bus with about a dozen other kids from the moshav for the 15-minute ride to school. Last night when trying to encourage the younger about how fun school would be, I mentioned the new playground they would play on. Kelli quickly corrected me. There is no playground at the school. Just a lot weeds. Oops. (I&#8217;ve been there, but just assumed there was a playground somewhere.) This year some of the Israeli schools are going to a five-day school week, so the kids will now have Friday and Saturday off (instead of Saturday only). I think that&#8217;s a good move. As with most good ideas, the religious are fighting it tooth and nail.<\/p>\n<p>Kelli now has the two girls at home all day.  They&#8217;re fun :=)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibleplaces.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/050829720tb%20Bethany%20and%20Katie%20with%20strollerswr-718919.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bibleplaces.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/050829720tb%20Bethany%20and%20Katie%20with%20strollerswr-717124.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The start of the semester has been full, including 20 hours of teaching in the first 3 days, besides various student life responsibilities. When it slows up, I hope to have time to blog more. Today was the first day of first grade for our two oldest, Luke and Mark. They got on the bus\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/01\/going-to-israeli-school\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}