{"id":1881,"date":"2018-02-26T13:15:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T18:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2018-02-26T13:42:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T18:42:17","slug":"nacac-members-advocate-for-students-on-capitol-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/02\/26\/nacac-members-advocate-for-students-on-capitol-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"NACAC Members Advocate for Students on Capitol Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/NACACHillDay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1886\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/NACACHillDay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/NACACHillDay.jpg 565w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/NACACHillDay-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/NACACHillDay-297x300.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than 160 NACAC members traveled to Capitol Hill this morning to meet with members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The visits are part of the association&#8217;s annual <a href=\"https:\/\/cqrcengage.com\/nacac\/advocacyday\">advocacy meeting<\/a>, which brings together members from both sides of the desk to advocate on behalf of students.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What motivated them to speak out? Check our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/NACACnet.org\/photos\/?tab=album&amp;album_id=10155151134752750\">photo album<\/a> and print out a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/globalassets\/documents\/advocacy-and-ethics\/gr\/whyiadvocate.pdf\">Why I Advocate<\/a> sign to share your own response on social media using the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nacachillday\">#NACACHillDay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WhyIAdvocate1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1882\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WhyIAdvocate1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WhyIAdvocate1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WhyIAdvocate1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WhyIAdvocate1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WhyIAdvocate1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WhyIAdocateTwo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1883\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WhyIAdocateTwo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"878\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WhyIAdocateTwo.jpg 878w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WhyIAdocateTwo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WhyIAdocateTwo-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WhyIAdvocateThree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1884\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WhyIAdvocateThree.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WhyIAdvocateThree.jpg 880w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WhyIAdvocateThree-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WhyIAdvocateThree-768x578.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/NACACnet.org\/photos\/?tab=album&amp;album_id=10155151134752750\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1885\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WhyIaDVOCATE4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"569\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WhyIaDVOCATE4.jpg 569w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WhyIaDVOCATE4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WhyIaDVOCATE4-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/>See more photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted\u00a0writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\"><strong>mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 160 NACAC members traveled to Capitol Hill this morning to meet with members of Congress. The visits are part of the association&#8217;s annual advocacy meeting, which brings together members from both sides of the desk to advocate on behalf of students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6],"tags":[277],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-nacac-news","tag-nacac-advocacy-meeting"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-ul","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}