{"id":36168,"date":"2012-12-12T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_front_page_for_many_financial_advisers_stocks_become_a_hard_sell\/"},"modified":"2012-12-12T00:00:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T00:00:23","slug":"wsj_front_page_for_many_financial_advisers_stocks_become_a_hard_sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36168","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ Front Page) For Many Financial Advisers, Stocks Become a Hard Sell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial adviser Jeffrey Smith recently watched a once-confident client scrawl his fears across a legal pad during a discussion of stock investments: &#8220;Congressional stalemate,&#8221; &#8220;unemployment,&#8221; &#8220;European crisis,&#8221; &#8220;corruption.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The client, retiree Nicholas Zerebny, later recalled how his thoughts strayed to Edvard Munch&#8217;s &#8220;Scream&#8221; paintings. In the middle of the page, Mr. Zerebny drew a crude version of the iconic screaming face.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s how I feel right now,&#8221; he told Mr. Smith.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324020804578147572199188766.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial adviser Jeffrey Smith recently watched a once-confident client scrawl his fears across a legal pad during a discussion of stock investments: &#8220;Congressional stalemate,&#8221; &#8220;unemployment,&#8221; &#8220;European crisis,&#8221; &#8220;corruption.&#8221; The client, retiree Nicholas Zerebny, later recalled how his thoughts strayed to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36168\">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":[39,40,589,149,593,129,599,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-personal-finance","category-psychology","category-stock-market","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36168","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=36168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}