{"id":112,"date":"2004-08-10T16:20:17","date_gmt":"2004-08-10T22:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2004-08-10T16:20:17","modified_gmt":"2004-08-10T22:20:17","slug":"credit-counselor-stop-using-credit-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/10\/credit-counselor-stop-using-credit-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit counselor: &#8216;Stop using credit cards&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suan Erler in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimesonline.com\/\">Northwest Indiana News<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Those carrying credit card debt at variable interest rates, like those with adjustable rate mortgages and other loans, are likely to see corresponding hikes in their monthly bills.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When a homeowner is already experiencing difficulty, they could end up out of their house by trying to pay a credit card and not paying their mortgage,&#8221; said Stalling, whose agency counsels those in budget crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Credit card debt carried by the average American was $8,562, according to American Consumer Credit Counseling, amounting to a total U.S. credit card debt of $60 billion.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimesonline.com\/articles\/2004\/08\/08\/news\/top_news\/36bc5b7dc2dd940286256ee9001f59cd.txt\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suan Erler in Northwest Indiana News reports: Those carrying credit card debt at variable interest rates, like those with adjustable rate mortgages and other loans, are likely to see corresponding hikes in their monthly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-and-debt","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}