{"id":118383,"date":"2025-12-15T20:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T20:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=118383"},"modified":"2025-12-15T20:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T20:13:11","slug":"the-universe-does-not-offer-financing-this-is-hard-to-accept-because-modern-life-trains-us-to-expect-the-opposite-we-are-addicted-to-buy-now-pay-later-you-live-in-the-house-before-you-pay-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=118383","title":{"rendered":"The universe does not offer financing.\n\nThis is hard to accept because modern life trains us to expect the opposite. We are addicted to &#8220;Buy Now, Pay Later.&#8221; You live in the house before you pay off the mortgage. You get the degree before you pay off the loan. You eat the meal"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The universe does not offer financing.<\/p>\n<p>This is hard to accept because modern life trains us to expect the opposite. We are addicted to &#8220;Buy Now, Pay Later.&#8221; You live in the house before you pay off the mortgage. You get the degree before you pay off the loan. You eat the meal<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/2000660130623578468\">Dec 15, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>December 15, 2025 at 03:12PM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe does not offer financing. This is hard to accept because modern life trains us to expect the opposite. We are addicted to &#8220;Buy Now, Pay Later.&#8221; You live in the house before you pay off the mortgage. You get the degree before you pay off the loan. You eat the meal &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=118383\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The universe does not offer financing.<\/p>\n<p>This is hard to accept because modern life trains us to expect the opposite. We are addicted to &#8220;Buy Now, Pay Later.&#8221; You live in the house before you pay off the mortgage. You get the degree before you pay off the loan. You eat the meal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-118383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118384,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118383\/revisions\/118384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118383"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=118383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}