{"id":67,"date":"2003-03-31T14:31:57","date_gmt":"2003-03-31T14:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2010-07-29T03:52:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T09:52:31","slug":"ranking-pretty-high-on-the-fucked-up-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/ranking-pretty-high-on-the-fucked-up-meter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking pretty high on the fucked up meter"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/newsjournal\/business\/singletary\/03302003.html\" target=\"blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">How would you feel if you came home and found a note in your mailbox from your neighbor urging you to call your debt collector? <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ashamed? Humiliated?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how one Maryland woman said she felt after opening such a note. Her neighbor received a call from the company that financed her husband&#8217;s truck. He was past due on the payments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now our neighbors are aware we were having these financial difficulties,&#8221; the woman said. &#8220;What the loan company did was just not right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It might not be right, but it is, for the most part, legal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/os\/statutes\/fdcpajump.htm\" target=\"blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act<\/a> allows companies to contact a third party to track down a debtor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>LA Woman73 shot this link to my neighbors mailbox.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How would you feel if you came home and found a note in your mailbox from your neighbor urging you to call your debt collector? Ashamed? Humiliated? That&#8217;s how one Maryland woman said she felt after opening such a note. Her neighbor received a call from the company that financed her husband&#8217;s truck. He was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12509,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/12509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}