{"id":398,"date":"2009-09-27T05:01:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T09:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/?p=398"},"modified":"2020-04-12T19:45:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T23:45:36","slug":"no-payments-until-next-jan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/2009\/no-payments-until-next-jan\/","title":{"rendered":"No payments until next Jan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s like those very clever advertisements: &#8220;Don&#8217;t have cash at the moment? Buy it now anyhow, and we won&#8217;t charge interest until next Jan.&#8221;\u00a0 Of course, by the time you&#8217;ve gotten through Christmas and New Years, you still won&#8217;t have any money and they&#8217;ll slap on months and months of interest. Gotcha! Life is like that. Today I went for lunch, did some grocery shopping, baked, and went to a birthday party &#8211; all with some friends. It was a great time, no doubt about it. But&#8230;.it is reminiscent of the clever ad: have fun now, overpay later &#8211; meaning lots of work for tomorrow. Moral of the story is make sure you plan into the future to have enough cash\/work done before you purchase\/have fun. Otherwise you might be paying\/working more tomorrow than you originally anticipated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s like those very clever advertisements: &#8220;Don&#8217;t have cash at the moment? Buy it now anyhow, and we won&#8217;t charge&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,19,5],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-analogy","tag-life","tag-moral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}