{"id":448,"date":"2003-11-10T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-10T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=448"},"modified":"2018-08-09T09:22:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T14:22:08","slug":"448","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/10\/448\/","title":{"rendered":"Paranoia Shidoshi Say: Wreck Your Own Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2003\/11\/07\/MNG4Q2SEAM1.DTL\" target=\"new\">the credit reporting agencies are putting your credit information directly into the hands of third world workers unbound by United States laws<\/a>.  That&#8217;s efficiency in identity theft.<\/p>\n<p>Your paranoia shidoshi recommends you open as many credit cards as you can in the next three weeks, max them out, buy a new Porsche, get a mortgage, and have a ball.  Remember <i>Brewster&#8217;s Millions<\/i>.  Whatever you can consume, creditors cannot seize.  So buy a couple cases of good wine, some exceptional chocolate, charter a jet, and fly a couple dozen friends to the Bunny Ranch.  But <i><b>don&#8217;t pay the bills!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>You see, once you&#8217;ve reached a point that no one will give you <i>change<\/i> much less a credit card, <b><i>no one will give someone who steals your identity a credit card, either!<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, the easy answers elude us, but that&#8217;s why I am the shidoshi, and you are the student.<\/p>\n<p>There is liberation in the limitation of paying cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, the credit reporting agencies are putting your credit information directly into the hands of third world workers unbound by United States laws. That&#8217;s efficiency in identity theft. Your paranoia shidoshi recommends you open as many credit cards as you can in the next three weeks, max them out, buy a new Porsche, get a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","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=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22123,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/22123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}