{"id":538,"date":"2007-05-03T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2007-05-03T10:00:56","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T10:00:56","slug":"back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"Back To School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Back_to_School>Rodney Dangerfield<\/a>, I&#8217;m going back to school.<br \/>\nMA in Psychology.  Interested in the gap between attitudes and behaviours, and how group dynamics can be harnessed to bring about behaviour change to match attitudes more closely.  Longtime readers will recognise this from the Small Group Action series that started <a href=http:\/\/www.additiverich.com\/morgue\/archives\/001738.html>here<\/a>.<br \/>\nMore details sometime.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nOverseas readers who recall my posts about debate here in NZ on <a href=http:\/\/www.additiverich.com\/morgue\/archives\/001903.html>the subject of child discipline and smacking<\/a> will not have heard that the political side of the issue has been resolved, with a cross-party accord in the house of parliament for a minor amendment to the bill:<br \/>\n<i>To avoid doubt it is affirmed that police have the discretion not to prosecute complaints against parents of any child, or those standing in place of any child, in relation to an offence involving the use of force against a child where the offence is considered to be so inconsequential that there is no public interest in pursuing a prosecution.<\/i><br \/>\nTo say this was an unexpected development is an understatement.  There was definite political mileage for the opposition in keeping this debate going.  But National leader John Key is clearly playing a longer game, mindful of future cross-party accords that must be found on matters like climate change.  Either that or he&#8217;s actually acting with integrity.  Huh.  Cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Rodney Dangerfield, I&#8217;m going back to school. MA in Psychology. Interested in the gap between attitudes and behaviours, and how group dynamics can be harnessed to bring about behaviour change to match attitudes more closely. Longtime readers will recognise this from the Small Group Action series that started here. More details sometime. &#8212; Overseas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=538\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back To School<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-group-action"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-8G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}