{"id":520,"date":"2007-12-12T17:05:58","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T00:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/12\/the-price-of-doing-things-the-last-minute\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T17:05:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T00:05:58","slug":"the-price-of-doing-things-the-last-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/the-price-of-doing-things-the-last-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Doing Things The Last Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I heard a situation where a person really needed help for a certain type of work that could have been done by herself.  However, she procrastinated in doing it and since there was a tight deadline she decided to get a professional to help her out.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, companies usually charge a premium for work that requires expedited services and the bill was definitely pretty hefty.  I think during the Christmas season a lot of people tend to spend more too in a similar fashion as they just buy anything as long as the price is right.<\/p>\n<p>I remember one time I needed to buy a cable for my camcorder as I found out that I forgot to pack it.  While normally I could get them for say two dollars, since I needed it I paid an enormous price of about $35 for one as it was the only place within the area that sold it.  Last minute shopping can definitely have its costs.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I heard a situation where a person really needed help for a certain type of work that could have been done by herself. However, she procrastinated in doing it and since there was a tight deadline she decided to get a professional to help her out. Of course, companies usually charge a premium for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[326,325,49],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-expedited-services","tag-last-minute-shopping","tag-spending-money"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-8o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}