{"id":31306,"date":"2025-01-01T13:46:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T18:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=31306"},"modified":"2025-01-01T13:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T18:46:05","slug":"living-on-30k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=31306","title":{"rendered":"Living on 30K&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;when I started to collect my earned SS benefits, I never thought I could live well on it&#8230;and I just got the latest statement and with the raise that starts this month, I&#8217;ll get over 30 grand this year and even with that little money, I&#8217;m putting away over 1K a month and if I don&#8217;t buy a new car, I&#8217;ll have well over 50 grand in cash in the bank by the end of the year&#8230;there has never been a time in my life when I&#8217;ve been this comfortable with money and not worried about affording even health problems or having to buy a new car&#8230;but, I am done with spending money after cancelling prime yesterday&#8230;not really anything else that I need&#8230;I guess it paid off that I was frugal my entire life&#8230;and still am&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;when I started to collect my earned SS benefits, I never thought I could live well on it&#8230;and I just got the latest statement and with the raise that starts this month, I&#8217;ll get over 30 grand this year and even with that little money, I&#8217;m putting away over 1K a month and if I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=31306\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Living on 30K&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-31306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31307,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31306\/revisions\/31307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}