{"id":968,"date":"2009-01-29T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/01\/cant-afford-to-send-your-kids-to-college.html"},"modified":"2009-01-29T07:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T12:32:00","slug":"cant-afford-to-send-your-kids-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/01\/cant-afford-to-send-your-kids-to.html","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Afford to Send Your Kids to College?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College is expensive, and with the state of the stock market, those college funds are looking inadequate.  What&#8217;s a parent to do?  In lieu of tuition, perhaps you should consider a one-way bus ticket to Edmonton, Canada.  Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/edmonton\/story\/2009\/01\/26\/edm-panhandling-police.html\">panhandlers there can make $400\/day<\/a>.  That&#8217;s a six figure salary, even with weekends and holidays off and a 2-week summer vacation.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose no one wants to say, &#8220;my son, the panhandler.&#8221;  But in some ways, it&#8217;s a more honest living than investment banker.  At least when you give your money to a panhandler there&#8217;s no expectation that you&#8217;re going to get it back.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College is expensive, and with the state of the stock market, those college funds are looking inadequate. What&#8217;s a parent<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/01\/cant-afford-to-send-your-kids-to.html\" title=\"Read Can&#8217;t Afford to Send Your Kids to College?\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}