{"id":441,"date":"2018-06-21T23:06:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T23:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/?p=441"},"modified":"2018-06-21T23:06:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T23:06:53","slug":"for-a-day-i-was-one-of-the-millions-of-americans-without-a-bank-account-it-was-humbling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"For a day, I was one of the millions of Americans without a bank account. It was humbling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"at_zurlpreview\">\n<h2>For a day, I was one of the millions of Americans without a bank account. It was humbling<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"display: none;\">For a day, I was one of the millions of Americans without a bank account. It was humbling<\/h3>\n<p class=\"imgp\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/resizer\/bCTeHUroXpk7n1BFOMG4JpLacXE=\/1200x0\/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/ZZPYD6FXGNE6TBBEU5CGGH4RSY.jpg\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/resizer\/bCTeHUroXpk7n1BFOMG4JpLacXE=\/1200x0\/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/ZZPYD6FXGNE6TBBEU5CGGH4RSY.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imgd\">Ever gone to a check-cashing shop or a payday lender? I hadn&#8217;t either. The experience taught me that Americans who don&#8217;t have bank accounts and credit cards pay a lot in money \u00e2\u0080\u0094 and time \u00e2\u0080\u0094 to get their financial transactions completed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"imgs\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-emerge-finx-20180621-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"external\">www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-emerge-finx-20180621-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a day, I was one of the millions of Americans without a bank account. It was humbling For a day, I was one of the millions of Americans without a bank account. It was humbling Ever gone to a check-cashing shop or a payday lender? I hadn&#8217;t either. The experience taught me that Americans &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/?p=441\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For a day, I was one of the millions of Americans without a bank account. It was humbling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}