{"id":242,"date":"2014-11-20T04:47:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T04:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2014-11-20T22:24:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T22:24:35","slug":"going-broke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Going Broke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew it was just a matter of time. \u00a0The clerk at one of the local feed\u00a0stores remembered the name of the well-loved and dirty sheep stuffed animal that our youngest child carries around the franch, and everywhere. \u00a0It isn\u2019t \u201clamb,\u201d \u201csheep,\u201d \u201cfluffles,\u201d \u201cwhitey,\u201d or \u201clovey.\u201d \u00a0It\u2019s \u201cbaa-baa.\u201d \u00a0And, the clerk \u00a0said hello to \u201cbaa-baa\u201d today. \u00a0Do you know what that means? \u00a0It means\u00a0we spend way too much money at the feed store. \u00a0It&#8217;s the first serious sign that we are on\u00a0our way to bankruptcy. \u00a0The next sign we are one step closer to\u00a0life on the streets will be\u00a0when the clerk memorizes our phone number which she enters at check out. \u00a0Thankfully, she keeps switching the last two numbers, for now. \u00a0It just isn&#8217;t going to be easy to spend less\u00a0as we are addicted to our franch life with all of our animals. \u00a0I guess the\u00a0simple solution to going broke is to find a way to make more. \u00a0In the meantime, I&#8217;ll choose denial by getting a new lovey for our child and changing our phone number.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3658.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-278\" src=\"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3658-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3658\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3658-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3658-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3658-676x507.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew it was just a matter of time. \u00a0The clerk at one of the local feed\u00a0stores remembered the name of the well-loved and dirty sheep stuffed animal that our youngest child carries around the franch, and everywhere. \u00a0It isn\u2019t \u201clamb,\u201d \u201csheep,\u201d \u201cfluffles,\u201d \u201cwhitey,\u201d or \u201clovey.\u201d \u00a0It\u2019s \u201cbaa-baa.\u201d \u00a0And, the clerk \u00a0said hello to \u201cbaa-baa\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}