{"id":1624,"date":"2014-02-06T18:40:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T23:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betsybuchanan.com\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2014-02-06T18:40:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T23:40:28","slug":"college-grants-and-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/2014\/02\/06\/college-grants-and-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"College Grants and Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sister&#8217;s youngest son is heading on for college soon and her life is jammed full of researching colleges on the Internet and the endless filling out of forms.\u00a0 She was telling me of a web site that provides <em>free<\/em> <em>access<\/em> to an extensive list of grants &amp; college scholarship opportunities that she uses. \u00a0Our teenager and I\u00a0will be confronted with the same challenges soon, that is if she makes it out of High School and believe me sometimes I really wonder.<\/p>\n<p>She isn&#8217;t still 100% sure of what she wants to do with her life and I am sure there are numerous kids out there that are in the same boat.\u00a0 It seems the majority of them want to become famous\u00a0celebrities with lots of spending money.\u00a0 So we aren&#8217;t even sure what classes to check out and it sounds like the classes for becoming a rich Super Star are going to fill up quickly.\u00a0 And of course money is a huge factor so we are definitely interested in college financial aid\u00a0to help ease the strain on our already strained bank account.<\/p>\n<p>Big sis really has been urging\u00a0 me to start checking out the processes soon and\u00a0she informed me\u00a0about a website that she has been using a lot that has their college scholarships and grants database updated constantly\u00a0and is user friendly, which is what I need.<\/p>\n<p>I never went to college so this is a whole new ballgame to me.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad that my sister is dealing with it now so that she can assist us when the time comes.\u00a0 Both my sisters\u00a0excel at researching on the Web and I learn so much from them, as I always have in this crazy life of mine.\u00a0 I&#8217;m so grateful for both of my sisters, I don&#8217;t know what I would do without either one of them and most of my brothers are pretty awesome also!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"nice teen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darlenemackenzie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/blbenice.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nice teen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darlenemackenzie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/blbenice.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister&#8217;s youngest son is heading on for college soon and her life is jammed full of researching colleges on the Internet and the endless filling out of forms.\u00a0 She was telling me of a web site that provides free access to an extensive list of grants &amp; college scholarship opportunities that she uses. \u00a0Our &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/2014\/02\/06\/college-grants-and-scholarships\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;College Grants and Scholarships&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,9,15,16,20,22,25],"tags":[84,119,135,160,179,269,270,280,297],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educationschool","category-family","category-finances","category-internetcomputers","category-life","category-reading","category-relationships","category-technology","tag-college","tag-education","tag-family","tag-grants","tag-internet","tag-scholarships","tag-school","tag-sister","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}