{"id":12825,"date":"2009-11-12T18:33:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T02:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12825"},"modified":"2009-11-12T18:33:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T02:33:39","slug":"writers-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12825","title":{"rendered":"Writers In Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2009\/11\/09\/writers-and-financial-woes-whats-going-on\/\">John Scalzi writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Writers are often attracted to other creative folks, including other writers.<\/strong> Nothing wrong with this in a general sense, mind you. We all love who we love, and what&rsquo;s not to love about another witty, smart and talented person? The problem <em>financially speaking<\/em>, however, is that other writers very often have the same basic financial issues: low, irregular pay, no benefits, poor finance skills, tendencies toward flakiness and risk-taking, and such. Two incomes are theoretically better than one, but two sporadic incomes accompanied by everything else that comes attached to the writing life isn&rsquo;t necessarily as much better than one would expect. And don&rsquo;t forget: Kids may happen. They often do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Scalzi writes: Writers are often attracted to other creative folks, including other writers. Nothing wrong with this in a general sense, mind you. We all love who we love, and what&rsquo;s not to love about another witty, smart and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12825\">Continue reading <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[19885,19884,19886,19882,19883],"class_list":["post-12825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-creative-folks","tag-finance-skills","tag-flakiness","tag-john-scalzi","tag-poor-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}