{"id":54045,"date":"2015-07-01T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54045"},"modified":"2015-06-27T07:24:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T12:24:49","slug":"bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54045","title":{"rendered":"Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I overheard a young woman in the building talking on the phone in the break-room.\u00a0 She\u2019s stressed out today.\u00a0 She thought she was current on her debt consolidation loan but the bank claims she\u2019s been a month behind for ages.\u00a0 Out of every $60 payment she makes, $40 goes to interest and $15 to late fees which means the principal has hardly been touched.\u00a0 She and her live-in boyfriend have no more available credit and can\u2019t get caught up because neither of them have an extra $60 that isn\u2019t already promised to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>I remember those days, when my family was young and struggling, when $60 was not a modest dinner at Red Lobster but an insurmountable obstacle.\u00a0 Seems like a lifetime ago. \u00a0I suppose everybody must go through it \u2013 no other way to learn sacrifice, delayed gratification, habits of thrift.<\/p>\n<p>Unless you\u2019re a politician.\u00a0 Then you just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/06\/government-shutdown-budget-negotiations-democrats-republicans-119327.html\">spend whatever you like on whatever you want<\/a>.\u00a0 Must be nice.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I overheard a young woman in the building talking on the phone in the break-room.\u00a0 She\u2019s stressed out today.\u00a0 She thought she was current on her debt consolidation loan but the bank claims she\u2019s been a month behind for ages.\u00a0 Out of every $60 payment she makes, $40 goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entitled-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54046,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54045\/revisions\/54046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}