{"id":233919,"date":"2017-02-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/the-stand-opens-at-mesa-college\/"},"modified":"2017-02-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T08:00:00","slug":"the-stand-opens-at-mesa-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/the-stand-opens-at-mesa-college\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stand opens at Mesa College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Stand, a food pantry and clothing resource to help students in need, held a grand opening Thursday, Feb. 2 on the Mesa College campus.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3620\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3620\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/missionvalleynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Stand.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3620 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/missionvalleynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Stand-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Stand opens at Mesa College\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/300;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>(Courtesy of Mesa College)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Stand helps students who lack food or clothing while attending college.<\/p>\n<p>Resources at The Stand are intended to fill the students\u2019 needs so that they can fully concentrate on their studies.<\/p>\n<p>The Stand also has professional and business casual clothing for students so that they will be properly dressed when they go to work, attend career fairs or job interviews.<\/p>\n<p>The items are free to enrolled students based on a point system. Students are allowed 16 points to spend at The Stand each week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFood insecurity impacts students every day, and we will now be able to help our students stay focused on their academic journey,\u201d stated Mesa College President Dr. Pamela T. Luster in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The Stand is located on the second floor of the Student Services Center, next to Parking Lot 1, off Marlesta Drive and Genesee Ave. To donate items or to learn more, call 619-388-2759 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdmesa.edu\/student-services\/student-success-equity\/the-stand.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>bit.ly\/2kTgX1I<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stand, a food pantry and clothing resource to help students in need, held a grand opening Thursday, Feb. 2 on the Mesa College campus.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":233920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11557","_seopress_titles_title":"The Stand opens at Mesa College","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11557,11551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-mission-valley-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}