{"id":8797,"date":"2008-10-01T16:39:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T16:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/from_the_front_page_of_the_local_paper_older_americans_among_most_vulnerabl\/"},"modified":"2008-10-01T16:39:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T16:39:11","slug":"from_the_front_page_of_the_local_paper_older_americans_among_most_vulnerabl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8797","title":{"rendered":"From the front page of the local paper (I): Older Americans among most vulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Dallas is 77 years old and 50 payments behind on his mortgage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody even believes that,&#8221; the Red Top resident said. &#8220;They say, &#8216;Man, they should&#8217;ve taken that house years ago.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A nagging nerve problem forced Dallas to stop working before he was ready, at 71. He soon found that relying on Social Security and a pipefitter&#8217;s pension left little behind after making his $800-a-month mortgage payments.<\/p>\n<p>He tried cash-advance stores but couldn&#8217;t manage the interest. He filed for bankruptcy but couldn&#8217;t keep up with the required payments.<\/p>\n<p>Now seeking financial assistance at counseling centers and churches alike, he hears the same thing: There just isn&#8217;t any money.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleston.net\/news\/2008\/oct\/01\/older_americans_among_most_vulnerable56360\/?print\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Dallas is 77 years old and 50 payments behind on his mortgage. &#8220;Nobody even believes that,&#8221; the Red Top resident said. &#8220;They say, &#8216;Man, they should&#8217;ve taken that house years ago.&#8217; &#8221; A nagging nerve problem forced Dallas to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8797\">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":[39,40,103,149,593],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-aging-the-elderly","category-economy","category-personal-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797","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=8797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}