{"id":11600,"date":"2009-03-05T23:42:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T23:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/from_the_local_papers_front_page_in_the_sagging_economy_just_hanging_on\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T23:42:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T23:42:37","slug":"from_the_local_papers_front_page_in_the_sagging_economy_just_hanging_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11600","title":{"rendered":"From the Local Paper&#39;s Front Page: in the Sagging Economy Just hanging on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruthie Christy firmly believes that God will take care of her in life. But right now, she could use a little help from the government as well.<\/p>\n<p>Christy and her husband have been scrambling to keep themselves afloat since January, when a local paper mill cut his work schedule to as little as six days a month. They&#8217;ve put off paying bills, asked creditors for extensions and used whatever money they could to pay the mortgage on their North Charleston home.<\/p>\n<p>Christy, 57, is still trying to come up with the cash to cover last month&#8217;s mortgage payment, with another round soon coming due. She&#8217;s tried to refinance her Ranger Drive home but can&#8217;t find any institution willing to write the loan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleston.net\/news\/2009\/mar\/05\/just_hanging_on73904\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruthie Christy firmly believes that God will take care of her in life. But right now, she could use a little help from the government as well. Christy and her husband have been scrambling to keep themselves afloat since January,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11600\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,54,595,149,597,593,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-credit-markets","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-personal-finance","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}