{"id":1035,"date":"2008-11-09T08:20:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T16:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2008-11-09T08:20:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T16:20:29","slug":"preparedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"Preparedness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the stock market continues its downward spiral I have been thinking about worst case scenarios.\u00a0 I came up with this:<\/p>\n<p><strong>A wise person will prepare for old age three ways:<\/strong><br \/>\n-By living in a place with good laws, a generous spirit and a surplus.<br \/>\n-By modeling the above traits within your family and community.<br \/>\n-And by trying to build enough personal reserves so that you are not dependent on either of the above.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I should also mention:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Low expectations<\/li>\n<li>A ready smile<\/li>\n<li>and a sense of gratitude.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the stock market continues its downward spiral I have been thinking about worst case scenarios.\u00a0 I came up with this: A wise person will prepare for old age three ways: -By living in a place with good laws, a generous spirit and a surplus. -By modeling the above traits within your family and community. [&hellip;]<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-gH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}