{"id":129,"date":"2017-03-28T11:53:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T15:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.112\/storybank\/?p=129"},"modified":"2017-03-28T13:07:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T17:07:08","slug":"humaira-queensborough-community-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/humaira-queensborough-community-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Humaira, Queensborough Community College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-164 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Humaira-QCC-storybank-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"265\" \/><br \/>\nI use financial aid to pay my tuition in college. I qualify for the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP). However, the TAP award is too low. \u00a0It should be more. \u00a0\u00a0I have to buy books, food, and pay for transportation costs and housing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This semester, my textbooks cost almost $300 and \u00a0my metrocard costs $120 per month. Because I am a full-time student in college, it is not possible to work. \u00a0I hope I am going to graduate on time so that I do not run out of TAP money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use financial aid to pay my tuition in college. I qualify for the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP). However, the TAP award is too low. \u00a0It should be more. \u00a0\u00a0I have to buy books, food, and pay for transportation costs and housing. This semester, my textbooks cost almost $300 and \u00a0my metrocard costs $120 per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,56,53],"tags":[16,15,20,36],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-29","category-senate-district-14","category-queensborough-community-college","tag-financial-aid","tag-tap","tag-textbooks","tag-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","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=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}