{"id":155410,"date":"2026-09-28T04:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T03:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/155410\/we-lived-within-our-means-i-earned-30000-as-a-pastor-and-still-retired-comfortably-why-dont-you-tell-people-that\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T04:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T03:03:49","slug":"we-lived-within-our-means-i-earned-30000-as-a-pastor-and-still-retired-comfortably-why-dont-you-tell-people-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/155410\/we-lived-within-our-means-i-earned-30000-as-a-pastor-and-still-retired-comfortably-why-dont-you-tell-people-that\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We lived within our means\u2019: I earned $30,000 as a pastor and still retired comfortably. Why don\u2019t you tell people that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\u201cAs a country, we have grown dangerously comfortable.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs a country, we have grown dangerously comfortable.\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-155410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livecrudeoiltraderoomresults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155410","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=155410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}