{"id":172,"date":"2009-03-14T14:12:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T18:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:40:50","slug":"how-is-this-a-good-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"How is this a good investment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/reject.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-173\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 3px 6px;\" title=\"reject\" src=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/reject-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"reject\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ll admit it, I worry about money as much as anyone else. While I do make stupid purchases from time to time &#8212; I can&#8217;t for the life of me remember the last time I used that stainless steel hand warmer I bought last year &#8212; I for the most part try to watch my spending and make sure I get my money&#8217;s worth.<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s a shot of a recent rejection note I got in a self-supplied, self-addressed and stamped envelope. Come on! I wasted a stamp on this? Perhaps including post cards with submissions would be a better idea. I could even put little YES or NO check boxes on the back, you know, to help them out.<\/p>\n<p>No way did I get my forty-one -cents worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit it, I worry about money as much as anyone else. While I do make stupid purchases from time to time &#8212; I can&#8217;t for the life of me remember the last time I used that stainless steel hand warmer I bought last year &#8212; I for the most part try to watch my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modeling","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pha1lg-2M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10935,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/10935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}