{"id":219,"date":"2017-05-09T12:52:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T16:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=219"},"modified":"2017-05-09T13:40:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T17:40:35","slug":"kevin-shannon-suny-cortland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/kevin-shannon-suny-cortland\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Shannon, SUNY Cortland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-225 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/kevin-S-cortland-storybank-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"260\" \/>I am a senior at SUNY Cortland, majoring in fitness development and hoping\u00a0to open my own gym one day. Attending Cortland has been the greatest decision I\u2019ve ever made.\u00a0\u00a0I wouldn\u2019t have been able to go to school without taking on a massive amount of student debt. With\u00a0increased tuition and academic costs, my family has felt the financial burden associated with a college education.<\/p>\n<p>Both myself and my\u00a0brother attended Cortland simultaneously for two years, making it even more difficult for my family to afford. New Yorkers should\u00a0have access to higher education at an affordable rate. Invest in higher education to help CUNY and SUNY students make an impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a senior at SUNY Cortland, majoring in fitness development and hoping\u00a0to open my own gym one day. Attending Cortland has been the greatest decision I\u2019ve ever made.\u00a0\u00a0I wouldn\u2019t have been able to go to school without taking on a massive amount of student debt. With\u00a0increased tuition and academic costs, my family has felt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suny-cortland","tag-student-loans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}