{"id":232,"date":"2017-05-09T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=232"},"modified":"2017-07-22T05:11:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T09:11:27","slug":"kevon-pile-suny-cortland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/kevon-pile-suny-cortland\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevon Pile, SUNY Cortland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-234 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Kevon-cortland-storybank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I am a senior in\u00a0the criminology program and an aspiring law school candidate. \u00a0My education would not have been possible without taking on a substantial amount of student loan debt. I am frightened when it comes to paying back my loans.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">My\u00a0loans cover tuition costs, and that&#8217;s it. I have\u00a0to pay for cost-of-living expense such as rent, food, and transportation out of pocket. I\u00a0participate in the work-study program and am enrolled in the Equal Opportunity Program (EOP). Investing in higher education will allow students like me\u00a0the opportunity to grow as individuals, and ultimately positively affect the great state of New York.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a senior in\u00a0the criminology program and an aspiring law school candidate. \u00a0My education would not have been possible without taking on a substantial amount of student loan debt. I am frightened when it comes to paying back my loans. My\u00a0loans cover tuition costs, and that&#8217;s it. I have\u00a0to pay for cost-of-living expense such [&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":[17,18,72,19],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suny-cortland","tag-eop","tag-job","tag-opportunity-program","tag-student-loans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","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=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}