{"id":2177,"date":"2014-08-03T11:10:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T18:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2014-08-03T11:10:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T18:10:19","slug":"people-pay-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/personal-finance\/people-pay-college\/","title":{"rendered":"How People Pay for College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/news.salliemae.com\/files\/doc_library\/file\/HowAmericaPays_Infographic_2014_FNL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">infographic from Sallie Mae<\/a>, the quasi-government entity that handles most federal student loans today. It goes with an upcoming post about financial articles and how people are supposedly paying for college &#8220;the wrong way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While you&#8217;re at it, check out our article about <a title=\"Step by Step Guide to Open 529 Plan Online Colorado\" href=\"http:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/personal-finance\/guide-open-529-plan-online\/\" target=\"_blank\">opening a 529 plan account online<\/a> to save for your child&#8217;s college education.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/personal-finance\/people-pay-college\/attachment\/how-people-pay-college\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2178\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2178\" src=\"http:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/how-people-pay-college.jpg\" alt=\"how people pay for college infographic\" width=\"833\" height=\"4749\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting infographic from Sallie Mae, the quasi-government entity that handles most federal student loans today. It goes with an upcoming post about financial articles and how people are supposedly paying for college &#8220;the wrong way.&#8221; While you&#8217;re at it, check out our article about opening a 529 plan account online to save for your child&#8217;s college education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[33,114,115,180],"class_list":["post-2177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-finance","tag-529-plan","tag-college","tag-college-savings","tag-education","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}