{"id":601,"date":"2010-08-20T09:31:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/?p=601"},"modified":"2010-08-20T09:31:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T17:31:09","slug":"are-you-ready-for-a-credit-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"Are You Ready for a Credit Card?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The lure of buying without paying can be heady. But not everyone is cut out for a credit card. Take this simple quiz to see if you are one of the few who is.<\/p>\n

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  1. Are you willing to pay $700 for a $300 vacation?<\/li>\n
  2. Do you feel good about being beholden to people who despise you, over a long period of time?<\/li>\n
  3. Do you feel that it’s right and fair that accounts get sold to people you never contracted to do business with?<\/li>\n
  4. Are 8 AM threatening calls exciting to you?<\/li>\n
  5. Would you rather have a $100 mp3 player now instead of a $400 iPod in six months?<\/li>\n
  6. Do you have trouble staying awake to worry in the middle of the night?<\/li>\n
  7. Do you relish the thought of living month to month and shifting money from account to account to survive?<\/li>\n
  8. Do you think having a savings or an emergency fund is for wusses?<\/li>\n
  9. Does stress give you a rush?<\/li>\n
  10. Are cheap gadgets and meals out more important than your kids’ college education?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you answered yes to more than half of these questions, congratulations! You are truly cut out for a life of living on the edge with credit cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The lure of buying without paying can be heady. But not everyone is cut out for a credit card. Take this simple quiz to see if you are one of the few who is. Are you willing to pay $700 for a $300 vacation? Do you feel good about being beholden to people who despise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}