{"id":4530,"date":"2003-09-09T19:27:55","date_gmt":"2003-09-09T18:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2003-09-09T19:27:55","modified_gmt":"2003-09-09T18:27:55","slug":"being-the-good-boy-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2003\/09\/09\/being-the-good-boy-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Being the good boy that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being the good boy that I am, I&#8217;ve just spent half and hour managing my finances. Which revealed the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m not as broke as I thought I was. Not much better off than I thought, admittedly, but not likely to see the bailiffs yet. And my credit card borrowings are way below the national average.<\/li>\n<li>RBS Advanta are offering the best deal on interest-free credit cards at the moment, better even than Egg, with an interest-free period on purchases and balance transfers until June 1st 2004. The application is in the post.<\/li>\n<li>RBS Advanta are also offering a MasterCard with the corner cut off. Bizarre. I wanted a MasterCard as it seems useful for making some purchases on the continent (particularly automated purchases for fuel and railway tickets, where machines often do not accept Visa), so I&#8217;ve applied for the funny shaped one. I&#8217;ll report back when it arrives (assuming my application is successful).<\/li>\n<li>Egg are offering a prize draw. The prize is a &pound;25,000 loan. Ummm. So they are offering the winner the chance to repay a loan?! What sort of prize is that?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being the good boy that I am, I&#8217;ve just spent half and hour managing my finances. Which revealed the following: I&#8217;m not as broke as I thought I was. Not much better off than I thought, admittedly, but not likely to see the bailiffs yet. And my credit card borrowings are way below the national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}