{"id":7213,"date":"2013-08-03T23:57:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T22:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=7213"},"modified":"2013-08-03T23:57:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T22:57:08","slug":"historic-scotland-and-large-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/historic-scotland-and-large-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Scotland and large families"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Leon<\/a>
Leon and Anna as King and Queen of Scots in Stirling.<\/a>, a photo by viralbus<\/a> on Flickr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>We often feel modern companies are on a mission to punish large families. Cinemas, budget airlines and many others charge almost as much for kids as for adults, and the result is that a family with five kids have to pay almost seven times as much as a single person, although they are likely to have more or less the same income.<\/p>\n

So it was an absolutely pleasure to join Historic Scotland<\/a> today. The yearly membership fee for a family with an unlimited number of kids (up to 15 years old) is \u00a384.55, which compares very favourably with the \u00a345.60 that an individual would have to pay.<\/p>\n

Historic Scotland is really worth joining, by the way. It gives you free access to lots of famous castles such as Stirling, Edinburgh, Linlithgow and Urquhart, plus a long list of other places and events.<\/p>\n

We decided to go to Stirling Castle first, and if you haven’t been, it’s definitely worth seeing. It’s huge, and there are many things to interest the kids, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We often feel modern companies are on a mission to punish large families. Cinemas, budget airlines and many others charge almost as much for kids as for adults, and the result is that a family with five kids have to pay almost seven times as much as a single person, although they are likely to have more or less the same income. So it was an absolutely pleasure to join Historic Scotland today. The yearly membership fee for a family with an unlimited number of kids (up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,159,104,139,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-en","category-family","category-scotland","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}