{"id":662,"date":"2012-11-24T09:18:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T17:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=662"},"modified":"2012-11-24T09:18:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T17:18:01","slug":"baby-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"Baby Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_0656.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-663\" title=\"IMG_0656\" src=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_0656-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_0656-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_0656-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Inching forward?\u00a0 Maybe; hopefully.<\/p>\n<p>Plans are being poured over.\u00a0 Ideas are getting kicked around.\u00a0 Options are soon to be on the table.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is always money.\u00a0 It has to be.\u00a0 We could end up with pockets full of lint and a very nice home.\u00a0 That is not okay.<\/p>\n<p>We need to balance the future home and the money needed to achieve comfort and financial solvency.\u00a0 Stability.\u00a0 Sustainability.\u00a0 Big dreams.\u00a0 Big responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>This is where our desire to be frugal and our desire to be comfortable collide.\u00a0 I hope the collision is like the fog meeting the forest; gentle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inching forward?\u00a0 Maybe; hopefully. Plans are being poured over.\u00a0 Ideas are getting kicked around.\u00a0 Options are soon to be on the table. The bottom line is always money.\u00a0 It has to be.\u00a0 We could end up with pockets full of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=662\">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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}