{"id":78855,"date":"2015-01-19T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T13:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=78855"},"modified":"2015-01-19T13:14:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T11:14:27","slug":"parents-fork-new-academic-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/01\/19\/parents-fork-new-academic-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents fork out for the new academic year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schools across the country reopened last week and many parents have had to fork out a small fortune to gear up their children.<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 academic year officially begun last Wednesday and more than a million pupils are expected to return to classroom.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>A local mom of four says buying back to school supplies for her children is never cheap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy daughter is going to grade 6.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s cost me about R2,500 including books, school shoes and a new school uniform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She says in order to cope financially, she saves throughout the year so that all her children will have what they need for the new school year come January.<\/p>\n<p>Another mom explained how she tries not to break the bank with buying school uniforms and stationary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe uniforms cost us more than R1,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It costs a lot because you must still buy the sports clothing as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Retailers say business is booming, as usual, with back to school purchasing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='8ebebccf6eb0f8dd18110e2e900fe23b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents have to save through the year to ensure children have all their back to school supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":78856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8516],"tags":[977,8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1095,1050,1074],"class_list":["post-78855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-headlines","category-local-school-news","tag-children","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-pupils","tag-school","tag-schools"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Schools"},"tag_labels":["children","community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","pupils","school","schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}