{"id":192018,"date":"2009-05-21T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/21\/this-article-makes-me-feeling-queasy\/"},"modified":"2009-05-21T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T04:12:00","slug":"this-article-makes-me-feeling-queasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/21\/this-article-makes-me-feeling-queasy\/","title":{"rendered":"This Article Makes Me Feeling Queasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New York Times<\/span> financial reporter describes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/17\/magazine\/17foreclosure-t.html?pagewanted=1\">how he got tied up in the foreclosure crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the article is a good description of the mania that gripped the nation,<sup>*<\/sup> but it makes me feel like a peeping Tom, so I let it percolate in my mind for a while.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s informative, but it made me feel like I was intruding to read it.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Well, not so much me, I bought a house in 2004 with a 30 year fixed rate mortgage and 20% down, at only about a 15% greater payment than the half a duplex I was renting, I had to move, and so I bought, even though I though houses were overpriced.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York Times financial reporter describes how he got tied up in the foreclosure crisis. I guess the article is a good description of the mania that gripped the nation,* but it makes me feel like a peeping Tom, so I let it percolate in my mind for a while. It&#8217;s informative, but it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,1002,1265,1129,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-good-writing","category-housing-crash","category-journalism","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192018"}],"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=192018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}