{"id":6408,"date":"2010-06-23T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=6408"},"modified":"2010-06-23T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T15:11:00","slug":"sponsormydegree-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/06\/23\/sponsormydegree-com\/","title":{"rendered":"SponsorMyDegree.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogPost\/Students-Beg-for-Tuition-Money\/24996\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Students Beg for Tuition Money Online<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from The Chronicle by Sophia  Li<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As students&#8217; budgets grow tighter than ever, some are resorting to an  unusual means to support their college educations: begging for tuition  help from strangers online.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A Web site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sponsormydegree.com\/smd\/home.process\" target=\"_blank\">SponsorMyDegree.com<\/a> has drawn about 10,000 users  since its creation in 2008 by a Colorado couple, Henner and Lilac Mohr.  Students can sign up free and create a profile with information about  themselves: photos, their hobbies, their career aspirations, the reasons  underlying their pleas for help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sponsormydegree.com\/smd\/home.process\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6409\" title=\"sponsor-my-degree-dot-com\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sponsor-my-degree-dot-com.jpg\" alt=\"Sponsor My Degree dot com\" width=\"522\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sponsor-my-degree-dot-com.jpg 522w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sponsor-my-degree-dot-com-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students Beg for Tuition Money Online &#8212; from The Chronicle by Sophia Li As students&#8217; budgets grow tighter than ever, some are resorting to an unusual means to support their college educations: begging for tuition help from strangers online. A Web site called SponsorMyDegree.com has drawn about 10,000 users since its creation in 2008 by [&hellip;]<\/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":[57],"tags":[290,572,657],"class_list":["post-6408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-walmart-of-education","tag-web-2-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6410,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions\/6410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}