{"id":2988,"date":"2017-06-15T21:53:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T04:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2017-06-15T23:07:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T06:07:46","slug":"a-small-pot-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/a-small-pot-of-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"a small pot of gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Little did I know the University of California opened a retirement investment account for me while I was working in their research labs. A letter about it came in the mailbox, asking me what I&#8217;d like to do with the leftover account balance. I decided to roll it over to a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roth_IRA\">Roth IRA<\/a> (individual retirement arrangement in the U.S.).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like finding surprise money inside some sofa cushions or in the back pocket of my old pants, except this time I can&#8217;t touch it until I&#8217;m 62 years old.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Will the world still be around by then? I hope so! And will I still be around? I hope so, too.<\/p>\n<p>(even if I turn bald, har har &#8212; although that&#8217;ll probably be the least of my worries by then)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little did I know the University of California opened a retirement investment account for me while I was working in their research labs. A letter about it came in the mailbox, asking me what I&#8217;d like to do with the leftover account balance. I decided to roll it over to a Roth IRA (individual retirement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/a-small-pot-of-gold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;a small pot of gold&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-Mc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2997,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions\/2997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}