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I don’t know why I handed back \u00a330 of \u00a360 someone tried to pay me today for two hours of third year university quantum physics tuition. Technically she is disabled, so claims all her tuition fees back from her university. In effect I donated \u00a330 to the treasury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know why I handed back \u00a330 of \u00a360 someone tried to pay me today for two hours of third year university quantum physics tuition. Technically she is disabled, so claims all her tuition fees back from her university. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-l3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2011\/01\/my-strategy-to-establish-a-world-monopoly-on-maths-tuition\/","url_meta":{"origin":1305,"position":0},"title":"My strategy to establish a world monopoly on Maths tuition","author":"taxicle","date":"January 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Is to ask other maths tuition websites to close down. 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