{"id":263,"date":"2009-03-11T08:06:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T12:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2009-03-11T08:06:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T12:06:01","slug":"what-would-you-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"What would you give up?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I confess to reading and participating in those unscientific polls on the CNN website.\u00c2\u00a0 Recently the question was something like “What would you be willing to give up to save money in the current recession?”\u00c2\u00a0 The choices were cable, cell phone, car, dining out, and nothing.\u00c2\u00a0 Pick one.\u00c2\u00a0 Clearly the nothing option is for those folks who’ve never actually been without funds.\u00c2\u00a0 Things have a way of being given up for you when there isn’t any money.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought about it hard and clicked my choice.\u00c2\u00a0 The last<\/em> thing I would give up was the overwhelming first pick (70%) of the unscientific clicks around the world:\u00c2\u00a0 Dining out.\u00c2\u00a0 My choice to eliminate was the last to go for everyone else\u00e2\u20ac\u201da car.\u00c2\u00a0 The game is rigged a bit for me and Sarah since, by choice, we have neither cable nor cell phone, so we’d have to get them before we could live without them.\u00c2\u00a0 Our car, a ’96 Civic with indeterminate 100K+ mileage (busted odometer), still runs fine for our limited demands upon it.\u00c2\u00a0 When it goes to scrap, we likely won’t replace it.\u00c2\u00a0 Dining out, however, is entertainment, exploration, and (when we do it) fairly cheap.\u00c2\u00a0 They didn’t ask about Netflix or my high-speed internet connection.\u00c2\u00a0 As for giving up my laptop, you better smile when you say that, mister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I confess to reading and participating in those unscientific polls on the CNN website.\u00c2\u00a0 Recently the question was something like “What would you be willing to give up to save money in the current recession?”\u00c2\u00a0 The choices were cable, cell … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}