{"id":1447,"date":"2022-12-06T18:16:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T23:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2022-12-06T18:16:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T23:16:31","slug":"mary-avella-hunter-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/mary-avella-hunter-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Avella, Hunter College"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Image-1-1-edited-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1448\" width=\"168\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Image-1-1-edited-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Image-1-1-edited-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Image-1-1-edited-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Image-1-1-edited.jpeg 1172w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I am a junior at Hunter College from Staten Island. I constantly have to walk up flights of stairs to meet with professors for office hours because the elevators don\u2019t work. I can\u2019t buy textbooks on the Hunter website because they are so expensive. Hunter doesn\u2019t have enough funding for adequate COVID testing and coming back to school was terrible. The online classes were terrible. We don\u2019t have enough options for disabled people. After many years of fighting, we are finally just able to get an elevator in the subway. While I pay out of pocket for school, I know others who are struggling and in need of help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a junior at Hunter College from Staten Island. I constantly have to walk up flights of stairs to meet with professors for office hours because the elevators don\u2019t work. I can\u2019t buy textbooks on the Hunter website because they are so expensive. Hunter doesn\u2019t have enough funding for adequate COVID testing and coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,69,54],"tags":[244,151,184,252,20],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-61","category-senate-district-23","category-hunter-college","tag-covid-19","tag-disability","tag-infrastructure","tag-online-learning","tag-textbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","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=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}