{"id":45,"date":"2019-05-03T18:27:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T18:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinro.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2019-05-03T18:27:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T18:27:55","slug":"community-college-is-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kevinro.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Community College is worth it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a product of the Washington state community college system. By most measures, I did pretty well in life. My wife is also the product of the same system. She did as well. In fact, many of the people who I believe would be considered as successful have community college in their background.<\/p>\n<p>Community colleges offer outstanding value in education. Class sizes are typically smaller, costs are lower, and the range of class offerings make exploration a real possibility.<\/p>\n<p>I am not alone in my assessment. Here is a link to a Forbes article on this subject that is worth reading if you are thinking college plans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nancyleesanchez\/2019\/01\/30\/community-college-transfers-outperform-high-schoolers-at-top-colleges-so-why-do-we-ignore-them\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nancyleesanchez\/2019\/01\/30\/community-college-transfers-outperform-high-schoolers-at-top-colleges-so-why-do-we-ignore-them<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a product of the Washington state community college system. By most measures, I did pretty well in life. My wife is also the product of the same system. She did as well. In fact, many of the people who I believe would be considered as successful have community college in their background. Community &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kevinro.com\/?p=45\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Community College is worth it!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kevinro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"http:\/\/kevinro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}