{"id":705,"date":"2019-06-10T16:58:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T20:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=705"},"modified":"2019-06-10T16:58:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T20:58:35","slug":"rodney-colon-city-college-of-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/rodney-colon-city-college-of-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodney Colon, City College of NY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rodney-colon-pic-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-710\" width=\"221\" height=\"289\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I get financial aid but it\u2019s tooth and nail fighting for it. Because the financial aid office is so understaffed it can be very challenging to get the aid I need.  I waited an entire semester to get my refund check. I spent money on a credit card to buy textbooks.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The elevators are horrific, like I\u2019m disabled, the elevators and the escalators are never functioning. They do these band-aid fixes and they\u2019re constantly still in disrepair.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I take the shuttle from the subway station, it is reliable but it gets super packed, they definitely need more buses.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get financial aid but it\u2019s tooth and nail fighting for it. Because the financial aid office is so understaffed it can be very challenging to get the aid I need. I waited an entire semester to get my refund check. I spent money on a credit card to buy textbooks. The elevators are horrific, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,106],"tags":[151,16,184,20],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school","category-city-college-of-ny","tag-disability","tag-financial-aid","tag-infrastructure","tag-textbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","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=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}