{"id":5804,"date":"2014-07-08T22:13:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T06:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=5804"},"modified":"2014-07-09T03:14:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T11:14:21","slug":"everyone-having-an-opinion-about-your-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/everyone-having-an-opinion-about-your-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Having An Opinion About Your Wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading this interesting article today at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2014\/07\/08\/this-is-what-happened-when-i-drove-my-mercedes-to-pick-up-food-stamps\/\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2014\/07\/08\/this-is-what-happened-when-i-drove-my-mercedes-to-pick-up-food-stamps\/<\/a> which essentially discussed how a couple who was financially well off all of a sudden found themselves in the unemployment line.  A result, they had to get financial aid with things such as food stamps.<\/p>\n<p>As the title of the article implies, the fact that they had a Mercedes made people judge them very negatively as I am sure most people would immediately assume they are simply gaming the system.  As well, the notion of getting this kind of assistance seemed kind of embarrassing for them from what I read.<\/p>\n<p>That is an interesting topic I think where it\u2019s a common occurrence where we are always naturally judged for the items we own.  I know for myself some people say I must have a ton of money to blow since I own a fair amount of pricey electronics for example.  However, what people usually wouldn\u2019t bother to consider are the things I don\u2019t do.  Might be hard for many to believe, but I don\u2019t have a coffee habit like many others for example where you could probably buy some pretty nice stuff as well with money you save.  <\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be too quick to judge until you hear people\u2019s entire story I guess is the morale of the story.  At the same time, don\u2019t let non constructive criticism stop you from achieving your financial goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading this interesting article today at http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2014\/07\/08\/this-is-what-happened-when-i-drove-my-mercedes-to-pick-up-food-stamps\/ which essentially discussed how a couple who was financially well off all of a sudden found themselves in the unemployment line. A result, they had to get financial aid with things such as food stamps. As the title of the article implies, the fact that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"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":[5045,2025,21,801,61],"class_list":["post-5804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-being-poor","tag-image","tag-money","tag-perception","tag-wealth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMAG1057.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-1vC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804","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=5804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5805,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions\/5805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}