{"id":26841,"date":"2020-09-24T08:06:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T13:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26841"},"modified":"2020-09-23T14:17:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T19:17:09","slug":"as-an-investor-i-know-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/24\/as-an-investor-i-know-better\/","title":{"rendered":"As An Investor, I Know Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this in my email box on Tuesday:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/powerball.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, as a savvy investor in Powerball tickets from time to time, I didn&#8217;t fall for this because I know the drawings are not held on Tuesdays, but on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n<p>Also, <em>I am not <strike>that kind of<\/strike> an idiot.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although I do call myself an &#8220;investor&#8221; in lottery tickets.  Because honestly, they pay out only slightly worse than the stocks I pick on my own.<\/p>\n<p><em>Buy the cheap mall store stocks, Brian J.  Retail is coming back real soon, I swear.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re wondering, I did not win this week.  And it cost me less to lose than my investment in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wet_Seal\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wet Seal<\/a> did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this in my email box on Tuesday: Yeah, as a savvy investor in Powerball tickets from time to time, I didn&#8217;t fall for this because I know the drawings are not held on Tuesdays, but on Wednesdays. Also, I am not that kind of an idiot. Although I do call myself an &#8220;investor&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26842,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841\/revisions\/26842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}