{"id":3755,"date":"2016-05-08T20:52:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T04:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=3755"},"modified":"2016-05-08T20:52:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T04:52:53","slug":"obama-surprises-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/obama-surprises-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama surprises students"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Jenna Beresheim\r\nNews Editor<\/pre>\n<p>On April 28, Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary was busy speaking to a crowd of college journalists gathered in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room when the President of the United States showed up for a surprise visit.<br \/>\n\u201cI hear there\u2019s some hotshot journalists in here,\u201d said President Barack Obama as he approached the podium where Earnest stood. \u201cI heard you guys were around today, so I wanted to stop by and say hello.\u201d<br \/>\nThe event, which hosted college journalists from across 28 states, was held in Washington D.C. within the White House itself. Issues relevant to college in the United States, such as Title IX initiatives and student loan debt, were covered as part of the process.<br \/>\nGoing with the theme, Obama stated that he had some breaking news for the new generation of reporters.<br \/>\nThe President stated that he intends to enroll 2 million more individuals into the Pay As You Earn program. This program caps the amount of student debt loans that a borrower has to repay to 10 percent of their monthly income. This plan would hopefully take place by April 2017.<br \/>\nCommunity colleges were not forgotten either, being approached as an item that may become free in the future with federal support.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m proud of the work we\u2019ve done in education to make sure that millions of kids who previously couldn\u2019t afford to go to college can,\u201d the President said.<br \/>\nTo see the official White House recording of the event, visit http:\/\/1.usa.gov\/1TuZZN7<br \/>\nContact the author at Jberesheim11@wou.edu or on Twitter @WOUjournalnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Jenna Beresheim News Editor On April 28, Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary was busy speaking to a crowd of college journalists gathered in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room when the President of the United States showed up for a surprise visit. \u201cI hear there\u2019s some hotshot journalists in here,\u201d said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}