{"id":3497,"date":"2010-03-07T00:53:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T08:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3497"},"modified":"2010-03-07T00:53:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T08:53:19","slug":"banks-are-my-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3497","title":{"rendered":"Banks are my friend."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Springtime is never as happy a time for me as it is for most others. I go outside in the sunlight and wonder when my hay fever is going to kick in. Sneezing, itchy eyes and general lethargy are nothing to look forward to. Often I just sit inside and wait for the misery to begin.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure why I was moving money around my bank accounts last month, but I did. To cover my year-end donations to my lefty liberal causes, I had to pay my credit card from a source I don&#8217;t usually use. So this month when I thought I was paying my credit card normally, the web site I was using decided to pull from the wrong account. The transaction failed, and now I have $69 in fees. What a pain in the ass. I wouldn&#8217;t have had this problem if I just mailed them a frigging check like in the old days. I guess this is what I get for being clever with my banking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Springtime is never as happy a time for me as it is for most others. I go outside in the sunlight and wonder when my hay fever is going to kick in. Sneezing, itchy eyes and general lethargy are nothing to look forward to. Often I just sit inside and wait for the misery to begin. I&#8217;m not sure why I was moving money around my bank accounts last month, but I did. To cover my year-end donations to my lefty liberal causes, I had to pay my credit card from a source I don&#8217;t usually use. So this month when I thought I was paying my credit card normally, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3497\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Banks are my friend.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-3497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3498,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions\/3498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}