{"id":26931,"date":"2017-05-11T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T21:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/?p=26931"},"modified":"2017-05-25T17:38:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T00:38:24","slug":"attending-college-adult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/gov-talk\/about-gov\/education\/attending-college-adult\/","title":{"rendered":"Attending College as an Adult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/college-as-an-adult.jpg&#8221; padding_mobile=&#8221;off&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;on&#8221;][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_3&#8243; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_text max_width=&#8221;620px&#8221; 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