{"id":891,"date":"2008-04-21T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=891"},"modified":"2008-04-21T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T18:28:00","slug":"off-topic-signs-the-global-economy-is-tanking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/04\/off-topic-signs-the-global-economy-is-tanking\/","title":{"rendered":"Off topic: Signs the global economy is tanking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">S<\/span>o you know times are bad when the <a style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/discussionleader.hbsp.com\/hbreditors\/2008\/04\/entrepreneurs_beware_wheres_yo.html\">Harvard Business Review<\/a> starts asking potential entrepreneurs to check their health insurance before cutting the corporate cord: <span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Take the case of my brother who was 55 and a former CEO when he took early retirement. To his great chagrin he discovered that he couldn\u2019t find health insurance. A millionaire several times over, Mike had the money to pay whatever premiums a health insurance company might ask. The problem: he had pre-existent conditions \u2013 diabetes and high blood pressure. No one in the state of New Hampshire would touch him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Millionaires without health insurance. Always good to come across a previously ignored political demographic in this election year&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you know times are bad when the Harvard Business Review starts asking potential entrepreneurs to check their health insurance before cutting the corporate cord: Take the case of my brother who was 55 and a former CEO when he took early retirement. To his great chagrin he discovered that he couldn\u2019t find health insurance. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}