{"id":4899,"date":"2009-08-10T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4899"},"modified":"2016-11-29T13:38:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T19:38:56","slug":"another-poor-widdle-citizen-screwed-by-the-corporations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/10\/another-poor-widdle-citizen-screwed-by-the-corporations\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Poor Widdle Citizen Screwed By The Corporations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksdk.com\/news\/national\/story.aspx?storyid=182193&#038;catid=28\" target=\"_blank\">Family losing home because of seven-cent mistake<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Michigan family is losing its home because it underpaid the mortgage by 7 cents in January, a legal aid group says. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The statement is presented as straight fact in the lead.  However:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rooks said <i>[redacted]<\/i> of Deckerville, in the Thumb, inadvertently underpaid their mortgage because a postal clerk issued a money order for $440 rather than $440.07. The couple didn&#8217;t catch the mistake and they were four weeks late making February&#8217;s payment of $690.07. She said they had been late before.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Bergers caught up by mid-April, Rooks said, Countrywide Financial and its new owner, Bank of America, rejected the couple&#8217;s payments. Bank of America countered that it and earlier loan servicers bent over backward to accommodate <i>[redacted]<\/i>, who has been repeatedly delinquent since purchasing the modest four-bedroom frame bungalow for $38,650 in 1997. It said <i>[redacted]<\/i> rejected a reasonable offer last week to get reinstated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those allegations by the people who know and who own the paper mean nothing; the paper and its wire service have their hook and story.  It was the <i>seven cents<\/i>, and that illustrates how capricious and darewesay <i>evil<\/i> companies are.  Only the benevolent government and its press corps can save the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family losing home because of seven-cent mistake: A Michigan family is losing its home because it underpaid the mortgage by 7 cents in January, a legal aid group says. The statement is presented as straight fact in the lead. However: Rooks said [redacted] of Deckerville, in the Thumb, inadvertently underpaid their mortgage because a postal [&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-4899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899","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=4899"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15986,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions\/15986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}