{"id":342,"date":"2020-05-14T20:11:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T04:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2020-05-14T20:13:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T04:13:21","slug":"things-i-learned-from-my-mother-5-be-good-with-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/14\/things-i-learned-from-my-mother-5-be-good-with-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I Learned from My Mother (#5): Be good with money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I vividly remember the day someone came to give a talk about retirement planning and 401(k)s at my first corporate job. He asked us, \u201cDoes anyone know what percentage of income the average American saved last year?\u201d No one spoke. He answered: \u201cNegative 1%.\u201d The average American spent 101% of what they earned. That blew my mind. We didn\u2019t talk about money too much growing up but she did teach me to spend less than I earn, and to save for a rainy day, or a sunny day. Thanks Mom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I vividly remember the day someone came to give a talk about retirement planning and 401(k)s at my first corporate job. He asked us, \u201cDoes anyone know what percentage of income the average American saved last year?\u201d No one spoke. He answered: \u201cNegative 1%.\u201d The average American spent 101% of what they earned. That blew &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/14\/things-i-learned-from-my-mother-5-be-good-with-money\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Things I Learned from My Mother (#5): Be good with money&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}