{"id":14865,"date":"2018-12-25T16:05:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T21:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=14865"},"modified":"2018-12-25T16:05:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T21:05:12","slug":"christmas-and-thoughts-on-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=14865","title":{"rendered":"Christmas and Thoughts on Wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I finally found a definition: wealth equals the difference between assets that can be liquidated and debts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Median wealth for White families is somewhere around $116,000.  That includes equity in properties.  We may be close to that even with no investments other than two houses.  It&#8217;s kind of a meaningless, dumb measure, though, since it doesn&#8217;t take into account income streams from retirement plans and Social Security.  I think so anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of which, I keep my fingers crossed that Ron&#8217;s retirement plans remain financially stable.  He keeps an eye out for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Made chili for Christmas dinner with a pile of different vegetables &#8211; onion, garlic, green pepper, spinach, black beans, celery, carrot, tomatoes &#8211; and started a tofu stir fry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Connie dropped off a beautiful plate of sweets yesterday, and I&#8217;ve devoured most of them by now.  Feeling guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally found a definition: wealth equals the difference between assets that can be liquidated and debts.Median wealth for White families is somewhere around $116,000. That includes equity in properties. We may be close to that even with no investments &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=14865\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14866,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865\/revisions\/14866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}