{"id":6684,"date":"2014-09-04T07:21:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T13:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=6684"},"modified":"2014-09-03T19:28:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T01:28:19","slug":"money-well-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/money-well-spent\/","title":{"rendered":"Money Well Spent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/salliemae.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6685\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/salliemae.jpg\" alt=\"salliemae\" width=\"532\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/salliemae.jpg 532w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/salliemae-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a>Back in <a title=\"9 Years From Today\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/9-years-from-today\/\">May of 2012<\/a>, I figured out that I had exactly 9 years of student loan payments remaining before my college education would be paid off. \u00a0That would be under 7 years now, but I decided to go ahead and pay the whole thing off, freeing myself from the shackles of debt. \u00a0I guess this is what being a grown up feels like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in May of 2012, I figured out that I had exactly 9 years of student loan payments remaining before my college education would be paid off. \u00a0That would be under 7 years now, but I decided to go ahead and pay the whole thing off, freeing myself from the shackles of debt. \u00a0I guess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[289,1728],"class_list":["post-6684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkeytalk","tag-boiler-up","tag-debt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6686,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684\/revisions\/6686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}