{"id":57932,"date":"2016-03-14T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57932"},"modified":"2016-03-11T11:03:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T17:03:40","slug":"malinvestment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57932","title":{"rendered":"Malinvestment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macalester &#8211; at $47,195 a year &#8211; has made the list of colleges where <a href=\"http:\/\/colleges.startclass.com\/stories\/7056\/colleges-alumni-salaries-high-school-grads?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social.paid&amp;utm_campaign=ao.sp.fb.dt.7056#11-Macalester-College\">alumni earn less than high school grads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, to some extent these rankings are misleading; students&#8217; earning potential is whatever they decide it&#8217;s going to be.<\/p>\n<p>Provided they don&#8217;t think waving a degree about and saying &#8220;I want a job in \u00a0my field&#8221; is the way to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Which, given the number of International Victimization Studies majors Mac turns out, may be a bigger problem than most places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macalester &#8211; at $47,195 a year &#8211; has made the list of colleges where alumni earn less than high school grads. Now, to some extent these rankings are misleading; students&#8217; earning potential is whatever they decide it&#8217;s going to be. Provided they don&#8217;t think waving a degree about and saying &#8220;I want a job in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,309],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-57932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-indoctrinate-u","tag-higher-ed-bubble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57933,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57932\/revisions\/57933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}