{"id":904,"date":"2010-06-30T21:23:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T21:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/?p=904"},"modified":"2018-11-11T22:47:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T22:47:59","slug":"financially-and-market-wise-this-week-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/30\/financially-and-market-wise-this-week-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Financially and Market wise &#8211; This week sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week has been the pits for us long-<strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>term<\/strong> <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>investors<\/strong>.  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