{"id":4005,"date":"2020-12-13T22:26:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T22:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2020-12-13T22:26:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T22:26:53","slug":"i-paid-off-all-my-student-loans-i-still-support-student-loan-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4005","title":{"rendered":"I paid off all my student loans. I still support student loan forgiveness."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;I graduated college in 1985 with $18,000 in student loans (about $42,500 in 2019 dollars), and then diligently paid them off over the next 10 years. As a father, I saved enough for my daughter\u2019s education to assure that she could graduate college 100 percent debt-free. I\u2019m not rich. I didn\u2019t always make the best financial choices. But I worked hard, played by the rules, and made good on my debts. I could be the poster child for those claiming student loan forgiveness is \u201cunfair.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you know what\u2019s really unfair? The huge advantage I enjoyed graduating into the 1985 job market.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/first-person\/2019\/5\/2\/18527036\/biden-millennials-cancel-student-debt-forgiveness\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/first-person\/2019\/5\/2\/18527036\/biden-millennials-cancel-student-debt-forgiveness<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I graduated college in 1985 with $18,000 in student loans (about $42,500 in 2019 dollars), and then diligently paid them off over the next 10 years. As a father, I saved enough for my daughter\u2019s education to assure that she could graduate college 100 percent debt-free. I\u2019m not rich. I didn\u2019t always make the best financial choices. But I worked hard, played by the rules, and made good on my debts. I could be the poster child for those claiming student loan forgiveness is \u201cunfair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But you know what\u2019s really unfair? The huge advantage I enjoyed graduating into the 1985 job market.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[740],"class_list":["post-4005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-student-loans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4006,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions\/4006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}