{"id":12064,"date":"2019-11-01T13:53:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=12064"},"modified":"2019-11-01T13:53:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:53:16","slug":"congresspeoples-kids-dont-need-to-pay-student-loans-truth-or-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/congresspeoples-kids-dont-need-to-pay-student-loans-truth-or-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Congresspeople&#8217;s kids&#8217; don&#8217;t need to pay student loans: truth or myth?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A myth gets recycled from time to time which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2011\/01\/congress-not-exempt-from-student-loans\/\">factcheck.org<\/a> boiled down into the the following question and answer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Q:\u00a0Is it true that members of Congress, their staffers and their family members do not have to pay back their student loans?<\/p><p>A:\u00a0Not true. Some congressional employees are eligible to have up to $60,000 of student loans repaid after several years \u2014 just like other federal workers. But that\u2019s not the case for members of Congress or their families.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/congressional-staffers-family-members-exempt-repaying-student-loans\/\">Snopes article <\/a>covers the same topic and says pretty much the same thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congresspeople&#8217;s kids&#8217; don&#8217;t need to pay student loans: truth or myth? #p2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Congresspeople's kids' don't need to pay student loans: truth or myth? #p2","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[2731,2055],"class_list":["post-12064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","tag-repay","tag-student-loans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12066,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064\/revisions\/12066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}