{"id":37704,"date":"2013-04-07T22:35:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T22:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/loan_education_becomes_a_prerequisite_as_student_debt_balloons\/"},"modified":"2013-04-07T22:35:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T22:35:49","slug":"loan_education_becomes_a_prerequisite_as_student_debt_balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37704","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) Loan Education Becomes A Prerequisite As Student Debt Balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For students now sprinting toward the end of their college days, the finish line may not be much of a relief. More than ever, their gait is slowed by the weight of impending debt.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-seven million Americans share about $1 trillion in student loans, . It&#8217;s the besides mortgages, eclipsing both auto loans and credit cards. And on it grows, an appetite undiminished by the recession.<\/p>\n<p>There are signs that students are catching on to the dangers, however. Dawit Lemma learned his own lessons about loans and is now passing them on to others. He&#8217;s the associate director of operations at the University of Maryland&#8217;s Office of Student Financial Aid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/04\/06\/176442821\/loan-education-becomes-prerequisite-as-student-debt-balloons\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For students now sprinting toward the end of their college days, the finish line may not be much of a relief. More than ever, their gait is slowed by the weight of impending debt. Thirty-seven million Americans share about $1<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37704\">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":[39,40,149,111,168,593,34,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-personal-finance","category-theology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37704","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=37704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}