{"id":1328,"date":"2008-05-20T10:03:35","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T15:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1328"},"modified":"2008-05-20T10:03:35","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T15:03:35","slug":"a-few-useful-rules-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1328","title":{"rendered":"A Few Useful Rules For Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And you thought today&#8217;s kids were unruly.&nbsp; Some early school rules of etiquette from around 1900, from Horton Cooper&#8217;s <em>North Carolina Mountain Folklore<\/em> (1972):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neither boys nor girls must wink at one another.<\/li>\n<li>Boys shall not carry any girls in their arms or on their backs unless heavy rains or much ice have made the creeks and branches impossible to cross.&nbsp; No hugging, squeezing, or kissing shall take place while the girl is being transported across the water.\n<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t pretend to see ghosts in an effort to frighten younger pupils.<\/li>\n<li>You shall not go swimming naked within 200 yards of the schoolhouse.<\/li>\n<li>You shall not bring to school any hawks claw for use in pinching the ears and noses of others.<\/li>\n<li>Do not put any dead pigs, polecats, or other dead animals in the schoolhouse loft to create a stink.<\/li>\n<li>You shall not argue hotly as to whether the earth is round or flat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nIn some schools around this country they&#8217;re probably still arguing about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And you thought today&#8217;s kids were unruly.&nbsp; Some early school rules of etiquette from around 1900, from Horton Cooper&#8217;s North Carolina Mountain Folklore (1972): Neither boys nor girls must wink at one another. Boys shall not carry any girls in their arms or on their backs unless heavy rains or much ice have made the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-this-and-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}