{"id":1191,"date":"2009-05-27T08:30:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T08:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2011-10-29T20:39:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T01:39:09","slug":"fiscally_respon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/05\/fiscally_respon.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiscally Responsible Follow-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you may remember me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/04\/a_tale_of_two_c.html\">downgrading both my phone\/Internet and cable services recently <\/a>in an effort to be more fiscally responsible considering I won&#8217;t have an income for the last half of 2009 and probably all of 2010 (OMG! AM I CRAZY?!?! WHY am I returning to the world of poverty?!?!)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy to report that I have now gotten my first full bills post the changes and am now paying <strong>$55 LESS <\/strong>per month for cable and <strong>$53 LESS <\/strong>per month for phone\/Internet.  I *could* bring my cable down another $40 if I gave up Sci Fi channel (well&#8230;.other channels as well, but that&#8217;s the only one that concerns me) but I am planning to watch <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/warehouse13\/\">Warehouse 13 <\/a><\/strong>(OK it seems like a lame X-Files rip-off but I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0565858\/\">Eddie McClintock <\/a>(remember when he was Sully on Bones? Ah, Sully.)) this summer and <strong>Caprica <\/strong>this fall so I figure I&#8217;ll keep it for now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t you proud of me?  Still working on controlling my eating &#038; my spending, my two big self-destructive areas of the moment, but you know, there&#8217;s still time.  I do have a job for another two months, you know! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you may remember me downgrading both my phone\/Internet and cable services recently in an effort to be more fiscally responsible considering I won&#8217;t have an income for the last half of 2009 and probably all of 2010 (OMG! AM &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/05\/fiscally_respon.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaching","category-tvtvtv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2354,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/2354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}