{"id":4990,"date":"2009-12-22T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4990"},"modified":"2010-01-03T13:58:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T19:58:50","slug":"a-is-a-the-law-of-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/22\/a-is-a-the-law-of-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Is A: The Law of Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things act according to their natures.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog\" target=\"_blank\">The scorpion and the frog.<\/a> Anyone familiar with these could have foreseen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/stories.nsf\/story\/3F9F9C8F7CD2C11486257694000F3055?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the biggest challenges to ending the foreclosure crisis is this: A surprising number of homeowners who get their monthly payments reduced fall behind again within a year.<\/p>\n<p>When borrowers get into financial trouble, lenders have several ways to help. They can offer grace periods, longer repayment schedules, lower interest rates or reduced balances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, the problem does not seem to be merely a 20% difference in loan amounts.<\/p>\n<p>Unless the people and their circumstances change, too, the problem of not having enough to pay the mortgage will continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things act according to their natures. The scorpion and the frog. Anyone familiar with these could have foreseen this: One of the biggest challenges to ending the foreclosure crisis is this: A surprising number of homeowners who get their monthly payments reduced fall behind again within a year. When borrowers get into financial trouble, lenders [&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-4990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990","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=4990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5058,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions\/5058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}