{"id":1809,"date":"2008-11-14T14:39:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T22:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2008\/11\/14\/i-cannot-fucking-believe-this-is-allowed\/"},"modified":"2008-11-14T14:39:25","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T22:39:25","slug":"i-cannot-fucking-believe-this-is-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2008\/11\/14\/i-cannot-fucking-believe-this-is-allowed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I cannot fucking believe this is allowed.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unlooked-for side effect of my generation&#8217;s financial crisis has been, for me, that the world of finance is suddenly quite interesting, and worth learning about.  There&#8217;s nothing like open-mouthed horror and blind panic to inspire autodidacticism.  I still know very little about how finance really works, of course, but the punch line is that most financiers apparently didn&#8217;t either.<\/p>\n<p>In that vein, I recommend one of the most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portfolio.com\/news-markets\/national-news\/portfolio\/2008\/11\/11\/The-End-of-Wall-Streets-Boom?print=true\" title=\"'I appreciate this, but I just want to know one thing: How are you going to screw me?'\">darkly hilarious articles<\/a> I&#8217;ve read in a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unlooked-for side effect of my generation&#8217;s financial crisis has been, for me, that the world of finance is suddenly quite interesting, and worth learning about. There&#8217;s nothing like open-mouthed horror and blind panic to inspire autodidacticism. I still know very little about how finance really works, of course, but the punch line is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitterness","category-discoveries","category-naivete"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}