{"id":5868,"date":"2009-04-01T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=5868"},"modified":"2009-04-01T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T18:10:00","slug":"broke-australian-university-students-marrying-for-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/04\/broke-australian-university-students-marrying-for-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Broke Australian university students marrying for money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday Telegraph: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/story\/0,27574,25257784-421,00.html\">Broke Australian university students marrying for money<\/a><\/p>\n<p>STRUGGLING Australian university students are getting married for money, exploiting a legal loophole to qualify for government assistance to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Tertiary students have become so desperate for financial support that some as young as 19 are resorting to marrying flatmates, friends and ex-partners so they can be classed as an independent and receive Youth Allowance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday Telegraph: Broke Australian university students marrying for money STRUGGLING Australian university students are getting married for money, exploiting a legal loophole to qualify for government assistance to survive. Tertiary students have become so desperate for financial support that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/04\/broke-australian-university-students-marrying-for-money\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2273],"tags":[399,1288961],"class_list":["post-5868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students","tag-economy","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5870,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions\/5870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}