{"id":699083,"date":"2026-05-28T08:31:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=699083"},"modified":"2026-05-28T08:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:31:23","slug":"once-upon-a-time-i-was-middle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=699083","title":{"rendered":"Once upon a time I was middle class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Might even say upper middle class.<\/p>\n<p>What I live on now, I bought a house, had two cars, and raised two kids. Now I am pinching pennies. Not teetering on the poverty line but have to watch and plan spending very carefully.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-699084\" src=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BC-comic2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BC-comic2.png 450w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BC-comic2-300x115.png 300w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BC-comic2-150x57.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Might even say upper middle class. What I live on now, I bought a house, had two cars, and raised two kids. Now I am pinching pennies. Not teetering on the poverty line but have to watch and plan spending &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=699083\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699085,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699083\/revisions\/699085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}