{"id":345,"date":"2009-06-20T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2012-03-31T17:18:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T21:18:48","slug":"nuts-and-the-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/20\/nuts-and-the-man\/","title":{"rendered":"NUTS AND THE MAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>If possible, avoid dealing with companies<\/strong><\/span> with more than 50 employees.\u00a0 For instance, if your bank wants to show you a new &#8220;product,&#8221; don&#8217;t go in.<\/p>\n<p>What product?\u00a0 Banks don&#8217;t give out toasters any more.\u00a0 I got a ski cap twenty years ago.\u00a0 Last product I got was a bunch of \u00a0red tape.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Don&#8217;t make any errors when filling out<\/strong><\/span> bank and government forms.\u00a0 If you make an error, you&#8217;ll spend months correcting it.<\/p>\n<p>Good news: \u00a0IRS literature is decent reading.\u00a0 If you want to read some clear prose, read the 1040 instructions.\u00a0 It&#8217;s business poetry.\u00a0 Engaging stuff about depreciation: 200 percent declining balance and straight line . . . &#8220;The straight line method is the only applicable method for trees and vines bearing fruit or nuts.&#8221;\u00a0 Expands your vista.\u00a0 The world is a more than just boilers and refrigerators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If possible, avoid dealing with companies with more than 50 employees.\u00a0 For instance, if your bank wants to show you a new &#8220;product,&#8221; don&#8217;t go in. What product?\u00a0 Banks don&#8217;t give out toasters any more.\u00a0 I got a ski cap twenty years ago.\u00a0 Last product I got was a bunch of \u00a0red tape. Don&#8217;t make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8994,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/8994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}