{"id":3546,"date":"2017-02-16T22:55:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T22:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2021-02-17T15:12:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:12:32","slug":"the-troublemaker-by-ali-hull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/the-troublemaker-by-ali-hull\/","title":{"rendered":"The troublemaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>Greg Valerio finished his last day of school with the words \u201cValerio, you\u2019re a natural-born troublemaker. Just make sure you make trouble for the right reasons!\u201d ringing in his ears. Nor was this the last day of term \u2013 instead, it had been the day when the school\u2019s patience had run out. A difficult relationship was coming to a premature end. School, for Greg, as for so many lads, had been a difficult experience \u2013 and one that had got worse as he got older. Brought up in a solidly middle-class area, he says, \u201cSchool was a farce, with its pressures to qualify with straight As, sit the Oxbridge exam or end up working for IBM. This mantra was continually preached in classrooms and assemblies, yet how could I take this seriously when one of the female teachers seduced my classmates, and another sold some of the best dope in the district? My disaffection with the school was reciprocated, because the senior staff didn\u2019t like me much either.\u201d<br \/>\nSo Greg greeted expulsion with joy. \u201cI was absolut...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Valerio finished his last day of school with the words \u201cValerio, you\u2019re a natural-born troublemaker. Just make sure you make trouble for the right reasons!\u201d ringing in his ears. Nor was this the last day of term \u2013 instead, it had been the day when the school\u2019s patience had run out. A difficult relationship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[340,436,618,619,620,621,622,623,624,625],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-content","category-portfolio","tag-ali-hull","tag-poverty","tag-africa","tag-bilharzia","tag-canada","tag-greg-valerio","tag-ibm","tag-making-trouble-fighting-for-fair-trade-jewellery","tag-observer-ethical-awards","tag-valerio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7620,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions\/7620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}