{"id":47724,"date":"2012-12-25T19:23:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T03:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=47724"},"modified":"2012-12-25T19:23:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T03:23:49","slug":"when-should-you-ask-a-date-about-her-credit-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=47724","title":{"rendered":"When Should You Ask A Date About Her Credit Score?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the first date? <\/p>\n<p>I think a credit score, better than any other score, approximates somebody&#8217;s character.<\/p>\n<p>Mine is about 720. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/26\/business\/even-cupid-wants-to-know-your-credit-score.html?hpw\">The New York Times reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The credit score, once a little-known metric derived from a complex formula that incorporates outstanding debt and payment histories, has become an increasingly important number used to bestow credit, determine housing and even distinguish between job candidates.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so widely used that it has also become a bigger factor in dating decisions, sometimes eclipsing more traditional priorities like a good job, shared interests and physical chemistry. That\u2019s according to interviews with more than 50 daters across the country, all under the age of 40.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCredit scores are like the dating equivalent of a sexually transmitted disease test,\u201d said Manisha Thakor, the founder and chief executive of MoneyZen Wealth Management, a financial advisory firm. \u201cIt\u2019s a shorthand way to get a sense of someone\u2019s financial past the same way an S.T.D. test gives some information about a person\u2019s sexual past.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first date? I think a credit score, better than any other score, approximates somebody&#8217;s character. Mine is about 720. The New York Times reports: The credit score, once a little-known metric derived from a complex formula that incorporates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=47724\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47724","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=47724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47725,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47724\/revisions\/47725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}