{"id":2964,"date":"2011-12-19T10:56:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T17:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2012-05-10T10:01:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T16:01:32","slug":"jobless-in-idaho-a-mix-of-emotions-for-one-college-grad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/12\/19\/jobless-in-idaho-a-mix-of-emotions-for-one-college-grad\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobless in Idaho: A Mix of Emotions for One College Grad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our first <a title=\"Series: Jobless in\u00a0Idaho\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/jobless-in-idaho\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jobless in Idaho<\/a> story, we introduced you to <a title=\"Jobless in Idaho: College Grad Starts from Scratch\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/11\/10\/joblessthomas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Justy Thomas<\/a>.\u00a0 She&#8217;s 38 years old and graduated from Boise State University last Friday with a degree in Human Resources and Business Management.\u00a0 She&#8217;s unemployed.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why she enrolled in college four years ago.\u00a0 Now, she looks forward with mixed emotions.\u00a0 We caught up with her on graduation day, and here&#8217;s the next piece of her story.\u00a0 Click the play button below to view the audio slideshow.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"620\" height=\"503\" id=\"soundslider\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/kbsx915.com\/stateimpact\/publish_to_web\/soundslider.swf?size=1&#038;format=xml\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/kbsx915.com\/stateimpact\/publish_to_web\/soundslider.swf?size=1&#038;format=xml\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" width=\"620\" height=\"503\" menu=\"false\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Thomas had hoped to have a job lined up before graduation day.\u00a0 Since our last story, she&#8217;s had an interview with JC Penney&#8217;s manager-in-training program, but didn&#8217;t get the job.\u00a0 She&#8217;s also sent her resume to a handful of local companies, but hasn&#8217;t heard back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our first Jobless in Idaho story, we introduced you to Justy Thomas.\u00a0 She&#8217;s 38 years old and graduated from Boise State University last Friday with a degree in Human Resources and Business Management.\u00a0 She&#8217;s unemployed.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why she enrolled in college four years ago.\u00a0 Now, she looks forward with mixed emotions.\u00a0 We caught up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":2966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[106,74],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4168,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions\/4168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}