{"id":1066,"date":"2020-05-07T16:31:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T20:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2020-05-07T16:31:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T20:31:59","slug":"ava-mayer-pratt-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/ava-mayer-pratt-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Ava Mayer, Pratt Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AvaMayer.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1067\" width=\"302\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AvaMayer.png 478w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AvaMayer-300x237.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I love Pratt, but sometimes I feel frustrated that the institution doesn\u2019t do a better job accommodating the financial needs of students. I\u2019m commuting from Astoria, Queens to my classes because of the cost of housing here at Pratt. It was also really tough getting a work-study position. A lot of my friends weren\u2019t able to either, and I think there should be more jobs available on campus. It\u2019s difficult enough having to work while being a student, and I think Pratt could do a better job acknowledging that and supporting initiatives that help them. If there were a better work-study program, I would more easily be able to support myself through school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Pratt, but sometimes I feel frustrated that the institution doesn\u2019t do a better job accommodating the financial needs of students. I\u2019m commuting from Astoria, Queens to my classes because of the cost of housing here at Pratt. It was also really tough getting a work-study position. A lot of my friends weren\u2019t able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[218,18,138,36,89],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pratt-institute","tag-housing-insecurity","tag-job","tag-support-services","tag-transit","tag-work-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}