{"id":765,"date":"2008-08-20T07:18:38","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T14:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=765"},"modified":"2008-08-20T07:18:38","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T14:18:38","slug":"new-york-times-on-boomers-second-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"New York Times on Boomers&#039; second act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/whouse-in-country-8-20.JPG' title='whouse-in-country-8-20.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/whouse-in-country-8-20.JPG' alt='whouse-in-country-8-20.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A local example of a humble house in the provinces<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ref\/realestate\/greathomes\/GH-Retire.html\">has a story today<\/a> on the very strategy I used for early retirement &#8212; taking the proceeds of years in the city to buy or build debt-free in an area where the cost of living is low. Personally I cannot imagine going into retirement with mortgage debt. Nor was I interested in so-called &#8220;dream towns&#8221; for retirement such as Asheville, even if I could afford it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local example of a humble house in the provinces The New York Times has a story today on the very strategy I used for early retirement &#8212; taking the proceeds of years in the city to buy or build debt-free in an area where the cost of living is low. Personally I cannot imagine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=765\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New York Times on Boomers&#039; second act&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}