{"id":190866,"date":"2009-10-19T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/19\/least-shocking-factoid-of-the-day-2\/"},"modified":"2009-10-19T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T00:45:00","slug":"least-shocking-factoid-of-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/19\/least-shocking-factoid-of-the-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Least Shocking Factoid of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that, despite the protestations of the banks, that they were <a href=\"http:\/\/executivesuite.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/14\/subprime-and-the-banks-guilty-as-charged\/\">hip deep in the subprime mortgage debacle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t just all those evil mortgage brokers, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The banks protesting that they were leaving money on the table, is like claims made by WWE that pro wrestling is real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that, despite the protestations of the banks, that they were hip deep in the subprime mortgage debacle. It wasn&#8217;t just all those evil mortgage brokers, etc. The banks protesting that they were leaving money on the table, is like claims made by WWE that pro wrestling is real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,1051,1088],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-hypocrisy","category-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}