{"id":151,"date":"2007-04-18T09:12:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2007-04-18T09:13:05","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T16:13:05","slug":"lack-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/lack-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I buy a lot of things with a credit card.  Not to specify which one, but it rhymes with &#8220;Whisk Lover&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The annual interest rate on the card is 25%.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine that?  Even mobsters would be embarrassed.<\/p>\n<p>You might be taking up to this point that I&#8217;m upset by this.  On the contrary, it&#8217;s the biggest favor they could have done for me.  <\/p>\n<p>Why?  Simple.  It makes me clear my balance every month.  If I ever have *any* urge to carry a balance over, it&#8217;s immediately squashed by the haunting, fiery &#8220;25% interest!&#8221; that hangs in midair whenever I&#8217;m writing the check.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure bean-counters at the card company fought long and hard to get the interest rate up to where it is.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder when they&#8217;ll realize how it might end up *costing* the company money?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I buy a lot of things with a credit card. Not to specify which one, but it rhymes with &#8220;Whisk Lover&#8221;. The annual interest rate on the card is 25%. Can you imagine that? Even mobsters would be embarrassed. You might be taking up to this point that I&#8217;m upset by this. On the contrary, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}