{"id":25194,"date":"2020-02-27T17:03:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T13:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/?p=25194"},"modified":"2020-02-27T17:03:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T13:03:46","slug":"seats-available-but-no-students-did-we-miss-the-boat-somewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/seats-available-but-no-students-did-we-miss-the-boat-somewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Seats available, but no students. Did we miss the boat somewhere?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>By Dr R Neerunjun Gopee<\/strong><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>What a turnaround and supreme irony that today, with education free and modernized school and college infrastructure and resources, the country finds itself with many empty classrooms and a dwindling number of students!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>READ MORE IN OUR PRINT EDITION<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><em>Available at all newsagents<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>* Published in print edition on 28 February 2020<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr R Neerunjun Gopee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Classes_-few-students-2.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QzSF-6ym","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}