{"id":146,"date":"2012-03-21T23:57:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T23:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cusjc.ca\/indebt\/?page_id=146"},"modified":"2012-04-09T21:59:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T21:59:34","slug":"megan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/indebt\/?page_id=146","title":{"rendered":"Megan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Megan* is a twenty-something personal finance success story. She owns her own home &#8211; or at least she&#8217;s working toward it by successfully paying her mortgage each month.\u00a0Her story shows the disparity in financial stability among young people.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CbhdUvpXQ1U\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Only a couple of years into her first job, Megan is able to afford her mortgage by renting out rooms in her house to students attending nearby Carleton University.<\/p>\n<p>Megan says she learned a lot of what she knows from her parents, and has a good relationship with her contact at the bank where she has her mortgage. She often asks for a second opinion when it comes to how to invest or spend her money, and Megan says she&#8217;s developed strategies to avoid temptation to spend &#8211; such as avoiding magazines with lots of ads.<\/p>\n<p>While Megan clearly works hard at budgeting and saving, her situation shows some people are succeeding without formal financial literacy training &#8211; they just have to be willing to take their money management education into their own hands.<\/p>\n<p>* Megan asked that her last name not be printed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan* is a twenty-something personal finance success story. She owns her own home &#8211; or at least she&#8217;s working toward it by successfully paying her mortgage each month.\u00a0Her story shows the disparity in financial stability among young people. Only a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/indebt\/?page_id=146\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-146","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/indebt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/indebt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/indebt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/indebt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/indebt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/indebt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/indebt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146\/revisions\/165"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/indebt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/indebt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}