{"id":53,"date":"2006-01-06T12:28:34","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T20:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ravelox.com\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2006-01-06T12:28:34","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T20:28:34","slug":"soooo-slooooowwww","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ravelox.com\/blog\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Soooo Slooooowwww"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I promised not to be so miserable but &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of 2005, with Christmas approaching and the fact we&#8217;re trying to save up the money to get back to the UK in the summer, things got a little tight financially. We&#8217;re over the hump now and we&#8217;ve spent the last couple of weeks balancing the books and working out the budget for 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The one thing that this has highlighted is how slowly financial transactions are being handled.<\/p>\n<p>Sam bought some books for the girls during the summer and the debit card transaction only appeared on our statement on Dec 31st. On some days, a purchase at Safeway will appear immediately. On others, it takes about 4 days. Refunds back to the card take a lot longer than the store taking the money from us in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Ho hum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I promised not to be so miserable but &#8230; Towards the end of 2005, with Christmas approaching and the fact we&#8217;re trying to save up the money to get back to the UK in the summer, things got a little tight financially. We&#8217;re over the hump now and we&#8217;ve spent the last couple of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ravelox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ravelox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ravelox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ravelox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ravelox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ravelox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ravelox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ravelox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ravelox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}