{"id":153327,"date":"2026-05-10T03:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T02:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/153327\/my-mother-regrets-paying-social-security-she-says-she-should-have-invested-her-contributions-i-disagree-whos-right\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T03:03:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T02:03:53","slug":"my-mother-regrets-paying-social-security-she-says-she-should-have-invested-her-contributions-i-disagree-whos-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/153327\/my-mother-regrets-paying-social-security-she-says-she-should-have-invested-her-contributions-i-disagree-whos-right\/","title":{"rendered":"My mother regrets paying Social Security. She says she should have invested her contributions. I disagree. Who\u2019s right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\u201cThere\u2019s no way my dad and my mom paid enough into Medicare to cover my dad\u2019s six months in long-term critical care.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no way my dad and my mom paid enough into Medicare to cover my dad\u2019s six months in long-term critical care.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2012],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livecrudeoiltraderoomresults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}