{"id":280,"date":"2013-03-07T14:19:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T23:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2013-03-07T14:19:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T23:19:41","slug":"perspective-is-such-a-funny-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Perspective is such a funny thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was working on my monthly bills and realized I was more than a thousand dollars short and starting worrying about how I was going to cover it.  Then I sit down to figure out the year-at-a-glance overview of upcoming medical expenses and seeing that what I was going to need to pay amounted to almost as much as I make in a year of take-home pay at my day job.  All of a sudden that thousand-dollar monthly shortage was not such a big deal! <\/p>\n<p>And then I got the really good news that I was going to be able to get insurance to cover much of those bills and that would decrease the medical bills by one-third of my first estimation.  All of the thought of an additional six thousand dollars of expenses seemed trivial and then it occurred to me that just hours earlier a thousand-dollar deficit was causing me so much worry.  <\/p>\n<p>Perception is a funny thing indeed! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was working on my monthly bills and realized I was more than a thousand dollars short and starting worrying about how I was going to cover it. Then I sit down to figure out the year-at-a-glance overview of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=280\">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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}