{"id":3478,"date":"2015-12-28T14:51:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T22:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/pay-reward-college-athletes\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T01:40:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T08:40:36","slug":"pay-reward-college-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/pay-reward-college-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay, reward college athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p class=\"p1\">College athletes should be paid. They receive no salary and the colleges are the beneficiary of this.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">College athletes are some of the busiest people on the planet. Playing a sport in college is a job, and receiving no salary means that these athletes have no money to buy things for pleasure. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The solution is this: each college athletic conference gets to have a certain amount of money that will go to the athletes. All freshman come in with the same salary and will have the opportunity to increase their salary by performing well in school and in the respective sport.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><strong><em>\u2013 Isaac Hegamin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College athletes should be paid. They receive no salary and the colleges are the beneficiary of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}