{"id":1872,"date":"2007-05-14T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T06:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2007-05-14T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T06:33:00","slug":"the-evil-of-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/the-evil-of-banks","title":{"rendered":"The evil of banks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My prior landlord chose to sit on a check for four months, and my somewhat less than organized accounting system let it fall off my radar. When deposited, it drew my account negative, and as a result, I got charged two overdraft fees.<\/p>\n<p>These fees.. $34 each.. were for moving bits around in a register.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry, but I feel like I&#8217;m being taken advantage of here. $34? I could understand $10, but $34? What if I were paid minimum wage? That&#8217;d be like five hours of work.. for something that a computer did automatically.<\/p>\n<p>Face it &#8211; capitolism is a tool for the evil side of the fence, not the good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My prior landlord chose to sit on a check for four months, and my somewhat less than organized accounting system let it fall off my radar. When deposited, it drew my account negative, and as a result, I got charged two overdraft fees. These fees.. $34 each.. were for moving bits around in a register. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}