{"id":914,"date":"2018-02-19T12:13:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T12:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=914"},"modified":"2018-02-19T20:10:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T20:10:25","slug":"do-you-think-spending-1m-on-taking-care-of-our-grass-is-financially-responsible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/02\/19\/do-you-think-spending-1m-on-taking-care-of-our-grass-is-financially-responsible\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you think spending $1M on taking care of our grass is financially responsible"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-882\" style=\"width: 322px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aw021918-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-882 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aw021918-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aw021918-1.jpg 322w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aw021918-1-151x300.jpg 151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do you think spending $1M on taking care of our grass is financially responsible [reply]: I second this, I third this<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A million dollars is a lot of money for a person, but not for an organization the size of BC. According to the BC Fact Book (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BC-FactBook\">bit.ly\/BC-FactBook<\/a>) the university had almost a billion dollars in expenses last year. A million pennies stacked on top of each other would be about a mile high. A billion would be 870 miles high. (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BC-million\">bit.ly\/BC-million<\/a>). It doesn&#8217;t seem to the Wall like a bad investment in keeping campus looking nice, or out of proportion to the rest of what BC spends money on&#8211;see the Fact Book for more detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A million dollars is a lot of money for a person, but not for an organization the size of BC. According to the BC Fact Book (bit.ly\/BC-FactBook) the university had almost a billion dollars in expenses last year. A million pennies stacked on top of each other would be about a mile high. A &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/02\/19\/do-you-think-spending-1m-on-taking-care-of-our-grass-is-financially-responsible\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do you think spending $1M on taking care of our grass is financially responsible&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","tag-grass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}