{"id":10385,"date":"2008-12-28T01:05:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T01:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/student_loans_turn_into_crushing_burden_for_unwary_borrowers\/"},"modified":"2008-12-28T01:05:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T01:05:38","slug":"student_loans_turn_into_crushing_burden_for_unwary_borrowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10385","title":{"rendered":"Student loans turn into crushing burden for unwary borrowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie Hickey left her small hometown in Ohio six years ago and aimed her beat-up Dodge Intrepid for the West Coast. Four years later, she realized a long-held dream and graduated with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in photography from Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p>She also picked up $140,000 in student debt, some of it at interest rates as high as 18%. Her monthly payments are roughly $1,700, more than her rent and car payment combined.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-collegedebt27-2008dec27,0,4636992.column\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie Hickey left her small hometown in Ohio six years ago and aimed her beat-up Dodge Intrepid for the West Coast. Four years later, she realized a long-held dream and graduated with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in photography from Brooks Institute<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10385\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,149,111,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-education","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}