{"id":7944,"date":"2016-10-14T11:46:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T10:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/?p=7944"},"modified":"2016-10-14T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T10:46:56","slug":"doing-the-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/2016\/10\/14\/doing-the-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing the dog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/doing-the-dog.jpg\" alt=\"Doing the dog?!\" width=\"320\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7945\" \/>English is without a doubt a very important language. Still, in the education we are giving Alex and Alan it is a little less important. For our sons Dutch is much more important. I want them to have at least a basic knowledge of Dutch so that they can manage themselves once in Holland. At school English is also a little less important. Alex&#8217; school focuses more on German, with German classes every day, and English only twice a week.<\/p>\n<p>We still feel that a little English at school, and all the English we can get on the TV should be enough to get a basic understanding. At least, as long as he is not taught incorrectly. At his school Alex got a drawing with the English title &#8220;What&#8217;s doing the dog?&#8221;, the words are in an incorrect order, which make it quite wrong. It should have been: &#8220;What&#8217;s the dog doing?&#8221;. Such a mistake in just once sentence is sure making us a bit worried.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English is without a doubt a very important language. Still, in the education we are giving Alex and Alan it is a little less important. For our sons Dutch is much more important. I want them to have at least a basic knowledge of Dutch so that they can manage themselves once in Holland. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alex","category-paranoia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}