{"id":125,"date":"2005-02-05T08:32:09","date_gmt":"2005-02-05T08:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=125"},"modified":"2005-02-05T08:32:09","modified_gmt":"2005-02-05T08:32:09","slug":"a_big_step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"A big step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to take a big step.  It is the second scariest moment of my life (the first being buying a new house).  I have paid off my mortgage.  The savings account was making a ridiculous rate so I thought I could at least not have to pay off interest on the house.  This brings my savings down to an unconfortable level, at least for me anyways.  And I don&#8217;t feel comfortable about my job security either.  So, this year I will have to save big time!  I am aiming for being able to live for two years of unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I know I could have used that money to invest in something, but I have not have that good of luck with the stock market.  I am much more concerned about security and reducing my monthly expenditures right now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/mortgage.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/mortgages.jpg\" alt=\"mortgage paid off\"><\/img><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to take a big step. It is the second scariest moment of my life (the first being buying a new house). I have paid off my mortgage. The savings account was making a ridiculous rate so I thought I could at least not have to pay off interest on the house. This brings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}