{"id":9934,"date":"2016-02-14T07:57:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T12:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=9934"},"modified":"2016-02-14T07:57:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T12:57:59","slug":"free-college-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=9934","title":{"rendered":"Free College?  Big Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am mystified by the allure of free tuition at state colleges.<\/p><p>Let&#8217;s not forget about fees and other costs, which would not be covered by the BS plan.<\/p><p>More importantly, without being assured of a job at graduation, what&#8217;s the point of marking time for four years?<\/p><p>How about opting for a really free high school diploma in the trades, at which point you&#8217;d be paid while you complete an apprenticeship, and be guaranteed work for the rest of your life &#8211; AND you wouldn&#8217;t have to live in a city, commute in traffic 2 or more hours a day or work as a corporate wage slave in some d*d office.<\/p><p>Plus, you have the possible benefit of union membership, the ability to live almost anywhere,\u00a0being able to do-it-yourself\u00a0and fellowship of (and discounts from) other skilled craftspersons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am mystified by the allure of free tuition at state colleges.Let&#8217;s not forget about fees and other costs, which would not be covered by the BS plan.More importantly, without being assured of a job at graduation, what&#8217;s the point &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=9934\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9935,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934\/revisions\/9935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}