{"id":117,"date":"2008-12-10T08:25:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T08:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsinthefield.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/10\/shuffling-occupations\/"},"modified":"2008-12-10T08:25:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T08:25:55","slug":"shuffling-occupations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/shuffling-occupations\/","title":{"rendered":"Shuffling Occupations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: Tracy<br \/>\nPhnom Penh, Cambodia<\/p>\n<p>Smoothly ironed blue skirt, crisp white shirt, blue bag and big smile, she walks proudly through the gates of her new school.  Today is the first day.  Before being able to open her books and write the date with her red sharpened pencil, and crisp cut ruler, the teacher presents her with a form that has to be filled in to complete the reintegration process.  Proudly she fills in her name, her age, her address \u2013 only using her eraser from time to time \u2013 her mother\u2019s name and that of her father\u2019s.  When it comes to her father\u2019s occupation, she clearly writes \u201cCard Player\u201d.  Slightly confused, the social worker that has accompanied her, quietly ask her why she wrote this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, when I leave in the morning, my dad is playing cards.  And when I come home he is playing cards.  I never see him \u2018going to work\u2019, so I think that is REALLY his job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Tracy Phnom Penh, Cambodia Smoothly ironed blue skirt, crisp white shirt, blue bag and big smile, she walks proudly through the gates of her new school. Today is the first day. Before being&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[68,627,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}