This week I paid a credit card bill late, for the first time ever. I have an excuse of sorts: I was traveling in the second to last week of July, and put a hold on my mail, and got busy in the month-end shenanigans and forgot my mail for a week.<\/p>\n
But I also have an automatic reminder set up that duly came in and warned me, and I had ample opportunity to pay online on time. I didn’t. I just didn’t keep close enough track of it.<\/p>\n
If I start paying a monthly fee or something I am going to get cranky and possibly even look for a new card. I have had that account for years and paid in full on time. But I cannot excuse my tardiness. Or the way I missed my scheduled flight that left on time, because I couldn’t be bothered to actually get up early enough.<\/p>\n
Life is starting to remind me an awful lot of my college ennui<\/em>, when I had a hard time caring enough to excercise due diligence. It didn’t all fall apart after the first time I missed a class, but by the time it was over I felt I had barely escaped with my academic reputation in tact, and that without much warrant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week I paid a credit card bill late, for the first time ever. I have an excuse of sorts: I was traveling in the second to last week of July, and put a hold on my mail, and got busy in the month-end shenanigans and forgot my mail for a week. But I also have an automatic reminder set Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}