{"id":847,"date":"2010-09-02T20:23:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T19:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=847"},"modified":"2010-09-02T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T20:28:00","slug":"a-rather-old-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"A rather old child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 6 weeks ago I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=691\">child fares<\/a>.  On my last trip to Salisbury today a young guy boarded the buses and asked for a child return to Salisbury.  He certainly looked older than 15 but before I could say anything he said &#8220;I&#8217;ve got proof of age, all the drivers want to charge me the adult fare&#8221;.  He then held out his passport.  I guess most drivers, myself included most of the time, would think that someone who&#8217;s gone to that trouble must be genuine and simply issue a child ticket.  Today it was different, I&#8217;d picked up no passengers at all up to that point and I was in danger of running early so anything to delay things would be of help.  I took the passport and opened it at the back page &#8230;&#8230;.. Date of Birth &#8211; 16 September 1992.  &#8220;You&#8217;re nearly 18!&#8221; I said.  &#8220;Child fares are for under 18&#8217;s, aren&#8217;t they?&#8221; he said.  I then told him that once you&#8217;re 16 full fare is payable, he seemed genuinely shocked and surprised.  So much so that I almost felt bad charging him full fare.  I honestly believe the guy was genuine in his belief but it seems that for nearly two years he&#8217;d got away with child fares by offering his passport which nobody then checked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 6 weeks ago I wrote about child fares. On my last trip to Salisbury today a young guy boarded the buses and asked for a child return to Salisbury. He certainly looked older than 15 but before I could say anything he said &#8220;I&#8217;ve got proof of age, all the drivers want to charge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}