{"id":3389,"date":"2016-05-01T22:23:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T02:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2016-05-07T17:57:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T21:57:19","slug":"life-moneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=3389","title":{"rendered":"Life, moneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s May, so <a href=\"http:\/\/life.alanv.org\">life&#8217;s<\/a> photojournal and stats have been updated. Surprisingly few photos this time around (averaging about 1000 a month). Also the Costa Rica trip accounts for around 1\/5 of the total photos, but even then, clocks in under 900 photos. I guess I&#8217;m getting better at editing down what photos to save? (Certainly doesn&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;m taking any fewer photos than usual.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading quite a few articles lately on the interwebs about income, savings, and general money things in the US. Here&#8217;s a few interesting articles, presented without comment for now, mostly because I&#8217;m not really sure how to consolidate my thoughts and opinions on financial situations and things right now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2016\/05\/my-secret-shame\/476415\/\">Many people would have trouble finding $400 for an emergency<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/lifestyle\/money\/a44086\/four-men-four-numbers\/\">(These two) rich people don&#8217;t think taxes are too high, lower-income people think they&#8217;re taxed too much<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskReddit\/comments\/2sbi17\/what_do_insanely_poor_people_buy_that_ordinary\">Poor people pay more for basics because they can&#8217;t stock up and can&#8217;t afford better quality<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unrelated to anything, <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1663\/#731145a0-fc43-11e5-8001-42010a8e000c\">here&#8217;s<\/a> my XKCD garden. It has a Neko Atsume cat in it, hiding behind the bush in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>Chloe and Brent came over for dinner today, and Chloe asked me how life was, and I really couldn&#8217;t think of anything <em>bad<\/em> in my life right now. Sure, I might want to quit my job and just relax or travel forever (not because of work, but because not-work is always a more attractive opinion), but realistically, everything in life is going well, and I don&#8217;t have any complaints about any situation (home or work) right now. I think I&#8217;m just incredibly fortunate in many ways in life.<\/p>\n<p>So yay for life and things, at least?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s May, so life&#8217;s photojournal and stats have been updated. Surprisingly few photos this time around (averaging about 1000 a month). Also the Costa Rica trip accounts for around 1\/5 of the total photos, but even then, clocks in under &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=3389\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}