{"id":393,"date":"2016-10-04T18:27:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T18:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldkaren.com\/?p=393"},"modified":"2016-10-04T18:27:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T18:27:53","slug":"opportunities-in-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"Opportunities in Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many opportunities when you reach a certain age. My husband and I have been inundated with invitations to retirement strategy seminars. We\u2019ve decided we should start attending each and every one because we DO need to understand how Social Security and Medicare work. It helps that these meetings include gourmet dinners. Sure beats cooking\u2026or crashing funerals.<\/p>\n<p>There are other freebies that come with retirement. Just today, George received an \u201cAuthentic Gift Delivery Notification\u201d from God knows who. It included a scratch-off, something old people always enjoy. George waited with bated breath as I scraped off the little silver circle. Lo and behold, the numbers matched, making George one of the \u201cGrand Prize Winners!\u201d We\u2019re supposed to call immediately to learn whether we won a Sony 50\u201d HD TV, a Samsung Galaxy Tablet, a 7-Day Royal Caribbean Cruise, or a 3-Day Getaway with 2 Round-Trip Airline Tickets! And if we go to the meeting to claim our prize, they\u2019ll activate a Target gift card for us, ranging from $5 to $100 in value. I just know ours will be for $100. How could it not?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re winners!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many opportunities when you reach a certain age. My husband and I have been inundated with invitations to retirement strategy seminars. We\u2019ve decided we should start attending each and every one because we DO need to understand how Social Security and Medicare work. It helps that these meetings include gourmet dinners. Sure beats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}