{"id":14847,"date":"2017-10-18T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=14847"},"modified":"2017-10-16T12:48:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T19:48:05","slug":"dearest-reader-a-proposal-financially-troubled-students-should-try-not-being-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/10\/18\/dearest-reader-a-proposal-financially-troubled-students-should-try-not-being-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Dearest Reader<\/em>: A proposal: Financially troubled students should try not being poor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dearest Reader,<\/p>\n

Few, it sometimes seems, are the issues of this fine publication making their way to the stands without trace of that complaint most central in a student\u2019s life. I write, of course, of the general and common concerns of financial instability in the lives of the city\u2019s young populace, the instability that allegedly threatens the future of their education, their home-owning potential, and their very lives.<\/p>\n

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Dearest Reader<\/em> is a satire column appearing in every issue of Nexus<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To live from one cheque to another, enduring the rigours of full-time employment and juggling this responsibility against that of homework and exams, is doubtless an agonizing life to lead, and I heartily recommend against it. As an upper-class male of European descent, I myself have suffered few of these pains, and cannot conceive why others might choose to do so. Listening to my elders, whom I have been taught to heed, I can only surmise that it has something to do with the youth\u2019s laziness, an obsession with avocado-based health trends, or possibly both. Then again, the concern may be the Millennial\u2019s refusal to \u201cjust rent a house, like I did in 1977.\u201d<\/p>\n

I have been informed by very knowing gentlemen of some experience that a minimum-wage salary was then quite sufficient to provide habitation for a young man or woman living alone. Surely that has not changed, for if it had, few would now be able to move from their parents\u2019 houses, the living wage would have all but vanished, and our city\u2019s society would be on the verge of financial collapse. Fortunately, from where I sit, this does not appear to be an imminent threat.<\/p>\n

It is a glad thing, dearest reader, to want for little as one works one\u2019s way through an education, confident of a future both financially sound and lacking in threats from society at large. And we may sleep soundly in knowing that the finances of students are managed by those who, like myself, understand the importance of the good and sensible allocation of funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dearest Reader, Few, it sometimes seems, are the issues of this fine publication making their way to the stands without trace of that complaint most central in a student\u2019s life. I write, of course, of the general and common concerns of financial instability in the lives of the city\u2019s young populace, the instability that allegedly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-october-18-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14848,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14847\/revisions\/14848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}