{"id":48247,"date":"2013-02-08T10:45:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T18:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=48247"},"modified":"2013-02-08T11:02:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T19:02:30","slug":"i-live-on-600-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=48247","title":{"rendered":"I Live On $600 A Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/biz\/2013\/02\/la_ny_well_down_list.php\">LA and New York are equally expensive<\/a>, with LA more expensive to live than SF with its sky-high rents? I&#8217;ve lived on about $500 a week baseline for a decade (dropped my health insurance last March). I now pay $1000 a month for rent and utilities, so I am currently living on about $600 a week. This does not include when I splurged for Alexander Technique lessons, writing classes, physical therapy, Chinese herbs, dating. I eat tons of oatmeal, bananas, split peas, lentils to keep my food bill down and to lower my interest in food so I lose weight. I splurge $50 a month for protein power.<\/p>\n<p>I have about ten credit cards from many of America&#8217;s finest lending institutions. In 2007, I had over $100,000 in available credit. Today, about $118 if you put all my cards together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA and New York are equally expensive, with LA more expensive to live than SF with its sky-high rents? I&#8217;ve lived on about $500 a week baseline for a decade (dropped my health insurance last March). I now pay $1000 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=48247\">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":[50,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48247","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=48247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48249,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48247\/revisions\/48249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}