{"id":896,"date":"2004-01-30T22:42:52","date_gmt":"2004-01-31T02:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/30\/look-at-that-its-friday-again\/"},"modified":"2007-08-03T10:45:51","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T14:45:51","slug":"look-at-that-its-friday-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/30\/look-at-that-its-friday-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Look at that, it’s Friday again."},"content":{"rendered":"
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You have just won one million dollars:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Who do you call first?<\/strong><\/p>\n

That’s easy – my Dad.<\/p>\n

2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first thing I’d actually do is pay off my student loans. Then with the $12 I have left, I’d buy a sandwich. Actually, I’d buy an apartment, and then I’d buy a sandwich.<\/p>\n

3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since we’re talking about the first<\/em> thing I’d buy for someone else, clearly I’d buy everyone I knew a round of drinks (and I wouldn’t even insist on bottom-shelf liquor!).<\/p>\n

4. Do you give any away? If yes, to whom?<\/strong><\/p>\n

After taxes, and the loans, and the apartment, and the drinks for everyone, I’m pretty sure there would be nothing left. Although there would be a significant portion of my monthly income that would be freed up from not having to pay loans and New York City rent, so I’d probably give larger donations than usual to my regular charities, which are places like National Public Radio and Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

5. Do you invest any? If so, how?<\/strong><\/p>\n

At this point I’ve not only spent all the money, but have started dipping into my normal income to give more away, so I’m pretty confident I’d have nothing left to invest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You have just won one million dollars: 1. Who do you call first? That’s easy – my Dad. 2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself? The first thing I’d actually do is pay off my student loans. Then with the $12 I have left, I’d buy a sandwich. Actually, I’d buy an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[8,35],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blogging","tag-miscellaney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-es","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}