{"id":2987,"date":"2011-09-01T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2011-09-01T17:21:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T17:21:37","slug":"is-college-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2011\/09\/01\/is-college-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Is College Worth It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2988 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 4px 3px\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2011\/09\/DollarSign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"239\" \/>Though I&#8217;m a long believer in the importance of higher ed, as the parent of two college-bound kids, I&#8217;ve had my doubts as to whether an uncertain future after four (only four?) years of college is worth the ever increasing price. So I felt much better when I read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-looney-greenstone-is-college-wo20110815,0,2201593.story\" target=\"_blank\">College: Expensive but a Smart Choice<\/a>,&#8221; by Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney in the <em>LA Times<\/em>. Their research indicates that &#8220;college is not only worth it; it&#8217;s probably going to be the best investment a person makes in a lifetime.&#8221; Parents of college kids, take heart!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I&#8217;m a long believer in the importance of higher ed, as the parent of two college-bound kids, I&#8217;ve had my doubts as to whether an uncertain future after four (only four?) years of college is worth the ever increasing price. So I felt much better when I read &#8220;College: Expensive but a Smart Choice,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2011\/09\/01\/is-college-worth-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is College Worth It?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":2988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-parents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2992,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions\/2992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}