{"id":838,"date":"2008-12-16T11:33:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T17:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/?p=838"},"modified":"2008-12-16T11:33:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T17:33:51","slug":"a-positive-spin-on-the-financial-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/838","title":{"rendered":"A positive spin on the financial crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving to Portland this morning,   and listening to NPR. There was an interview with a 50-year-old woman who was describing how her retirement fund was down 30%,   and she wouldn&#8217;t be able to retire when she thought she was going to be able to.<\/p>\n<p>That made me thing, might the lack of retirement funds drive retirees to living with their families? Might this crisis make separate parts of families merge? Instead of living in a summer home in Arizona, will retirees volunteer part time at their public library, and hang out with the grand kids after school?<\/p>\n<p>I know not everyone has a good relationship with their parents, but I would love it if my parents lived with me. They&#8217;re smart, funny, and good company. They have solid genes, and should stay in good health for a long time. We can watch old movies and talk about current events, and we&#8217;ll all be happy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sundaykofax\/2664705562\/\" title=\"I just like how they look like they're talking to each other. by sundaykofax, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3176\/2664705562_65110e7668.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"I just like how they look like they're talking to each other.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving to Portland this morning, and listening to NPR. There was an interview with a 50-year-old woman who was describing how her retirement fund was down 30%, and she wouldn&#8217;t be able to retire when she thought she was going to be able to. That made me thing, might the lack of retirement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[108,106,104,107,105],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucket-of-sunshine","tag-dad","tag-family","tag-financial-crisis","tag-mom","tag-parents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}