{"id":328,"date":"2009-06-18T06:49:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T13:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2009-06-18T06:49:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T13:49:55","slug":"ask-the-readers-does-your-family-take-summer-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/18\/ask-the-readers-does-your-family-take-summer-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Readers: Does Your Family Take Summer Vacation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summer Vacation.<\/strong> It&#8217;s been an educational tradition for schools to break during the summer months.\u00a0 But does your family take part in this tradition, or do your kids study year-round?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Summer break is rooted in the agricultural history of the United States (personally, I believe it also has something to do with the fact that schoolhouses were not air conditioned until about 50 years ago).\u00a0 Traditionally, families would work together during the summer months, tending their crops and caring for their livestock.\u00a0 As a result, schools would close.<\/p>\n<p>These days, fewer and fewer of us still farm for a living. As a result, summer vacation has enjoyed decreasing popularity.\u00a0 But how about you? Does your family take off from school during the summer months? Drop a comment below, and let us know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer Vacation. It&#8217;s been an educational tradition for schools to break during the summer months.\u00a0 But does your family take part in this tradition, or do your kids study year-round?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[57,106],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polls","tag-ask-the-reader","tag-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}