{"id":2775,"date":"2012-02-08T13:48:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T01:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2012-02-08T13:48:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T01:48:44","slug":"library-rick-steves-says-study-abroad-is-necessity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/library-rick-steves-says-study-abroad-is-necessity\/","title":{"rendered":"Library: Rick Steves says study abroad is necessity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us know that Rick Steves as an expert on European travel. What you may not know is that he&#8217;s a huge supporter of study abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Steves wrote an opinion piece in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/\">USA Today<\/a>\u00a0 on January 19 to make the case that study abroad is a crucial investment in preparing our nation&#8217;s future generations.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, &#8220;If we want a new generation of leaders and innovators who can be effective in an ever more globalized world, sending our students overseas is not a luxury. It&#8217;s a necessity.&#8221; Also in the article, he mentions the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nafsa.org\/public_policy.sec\/commission_on_the_abraham\/\" target=\"_blank\">Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Act.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the full article, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nafsa.org\/public_policy.sec\/commission_on_the_abraham\/\" target=\"_blank\">Study abroad is necessity, not luxury<\/a>&#8221; to get Steves&#8217; full perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us know that Rick Steves as an expert on European travel. What you may not know is that he&#8217;s a huge supporter of study abroad. Steves wrote an opinion piece in USA Today\u00a0 on January 19 to make the case that study abroad is a crucial investment in preparing our nation&#8217;s future generations. He wrote, &#8220;If we want&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23,26,22,17,6,30,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctica","category-australia-north-queensland","category-australia-northern-territory","category-australia-south-queensland","category-australia-sydney","category-fiji","category-library","category-new-zealand"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}