{"id":3084,"date":"2013-03-26T23:38:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T04:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2013-03-30T07:14:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T12:14:48","slug":"villanova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3084","title":{"rendered":"Villanova"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3085\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/img_20130326_053355.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3085\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/img_20130326_053355-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"St. Thomas of Villanova Parish\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/img_20130326_053355-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/img_20130326_053355-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/img_20130326_053355-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/img_20130326_053355-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/img_20130326_053355.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Thomas of Villanova Parish<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The second of our three college visits today was Villanova. It&#8217;s a much different place to West Chester and for a number of different reasons. First, rather than being a state school, it is a private school, founded in 1842 by the Order of St. Augustine. Second, and it&#8217;s clear that they have a good deal of money. Considering the tuition at the two schools, there&#8217;s no question why. Villanova isn&#8217;t a cheap school, by any stretch of the imagination.<\/p>\n<p>Dorothy and Karlee liked the campus and it had &#x201c;good vibes.&#x201d; It&#8217;s a big enough school (about 6,600 undergraduates) although not huge. It seems to take its Augustinian roots seriously, which I think is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>It was also great to visit with my old friend Pedro, whom I haven&#8217;t seen in far too many years. Thanks for having lunch with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second of our three college visits today was Villanova. It&#8217;s a much different place to West Chester and for a number of different reasons. First, rather than being a state school, it is a private school, founded in 1842 by the Order of St. Augustine. Second, and it&#8217;s clear that they have a good &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3084\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3088,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions\/3088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}