{"id":101,"date":"2008-04-16T13:05:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T20:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2008-04-16T13:05:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T20:05:18","slug":"credit-counseling-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/banking\/credit-counseling-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit Counseling Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago, I wrote about <a title=\"Credit Report\" href=\"http:\/\/financegourmet.com\/creditreport.htm\">monitoring your credit report<\/a> on the non-blog Finance Gourmet site.\u00a0 In it I included a warning about the various services offering to &#8220;fix&#8221; your credit and lower you monthly payment.\u00a0 Now a much <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/371210\/confessions-of-a-debt-settlement-company-worker\" rel=\"noopener\">bigger site<\/a> has an &#8220;insider&#8221; confession from just such an outfit.\u00a0 A little independent confirmation always is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago, I wrote about monitoring your credit report on the non-blog Finance Gourmet site.\u00a0 In it I included a warning about the various services offering to &#8220;fix&#8221; your credit and lower you monthly payment.\u00a0 Now a much bigger site has an &#8220;insider&#8221; confession from just such an outfit.\u00a0 A little independent confirmation always is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[658,459],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking","category-credit-cards","tag-credit-cards","tag-scams","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}