{"id":500,"date":"2011-01-27T19:48:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T00:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=500"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:25","slug":"a-turn-for-the-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/01\/a-turn-for-the-better\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the kind of post I might have made on Facebook, if I hadn&#8217;t stopped posting there.\u00a0 (Today&#8217;s Facebook reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2375715,00.asp\">AOL in the mid-1990s<\/a>.\u00a0 Something new will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markevanstech.com\/2010\/05\/12\/looking-for-the-next-facebook\/\">replace it<\/a> sooner than we think.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m pleased to report that I am happy helping folks prepare their tax returns at the local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontrackwnc.org\/tax_time.htm\">financial counseling agency<\/a>.\u00a0 I like the staff, the teamwork is great, it feels good to deal directly with people, and taxes are complicated enough (no thanks to the Congress) to keep me intellectually engaged.\u00a0 It also helps that I think I will be good at this.\u00a0 Being good at something is a lot less stressful than trying to measure up.<\/p>\n<p>So the days are getting longer and they also seem a little brighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the kind of post I might have made on Facebook, if I hadn&#8217;t stopped posting there.\u00a0 (Today&#8217;s Facebook reminds me of AOL in the mid-1990s.\u00a0 Something new will replace it sooner than we think.) Anyway, I&#8217;m pleased to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/01\/a-turn-for-the-better\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}