{"id":176,"date":"2011-03-04T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cms\/?p=176"},"modified":"2014-11-19T16:44:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T21:44:51","slug":"college-the-easy-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/college-the-easy-way\/","title":{"rendered":"College the Easy Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(by Bob Herbert &#8211; OpEd, New York Times)<\/p>\n<p>The cost of college has skyrocketed and a four-year degree has become an ever more essential cornerstone to a middle-class standard of living. But what are America&#8217;s kids actually learning in college?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/05\/opinion\/05herbert.html?_r=1&#038;ref=todayspaper\" target=\"_blank\">Read the entire article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(by Bob Herbert &#8211; OpEd, New York Times) The cost of college has skyrocketed and a four-year degree has become an ever more essential cornerstone to a middle-class standard of living. But what are America&#8217;s kids actually learning in college? Read the entire article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}