{"id":3266,"date":"2009-02-26T09:05:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T09:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=3266"},"modified":"2009-02-26T09:05:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T09:05:30","slug":"duckies-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/26\/duckies-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Duckies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/images\/LJ\/newduckies.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Campus is full of ducks again. This makes me happy, in a very Tony Soprano-esque sort of way. Natwest seems to delight in jerking us around regarding our loan application &#8211; which so far has taken close to two weeks now. They say they are being &#8220;responsible lenders&#8221;. I say they don&#8217;t want to lend out money while the interest rates are so low and they&#8217;re stalling as much as they can. If they say no, I&#8217;m taking my business elsewhere. As in, closing all my accounts and giving them the big two-finger salute. Most UK banks are sitting on a cubic butt-load of government money which, in theory, they are supposed to give out to try and re-stimulate the economy. They&#8217;re like greedy three year-olds. MINE! MINE! MINE!<\/p>\n<p>I hate banks.<\/p>\n<p>So, in the meantime, I feed the ducks and try not to stress too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus is full of ducks again. This makes me happy, in a very Tony Soprano-esque sort of way. Natwest seems to delight in jerking us around regarding our loan application &#8211; which so far has taken close to two weeks now. They say they are being &#8220;responsible lenders&#8221;. I say they don&#8217;t want to lend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/26\/duckies-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Duckies!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,151,88],"class_list":["post-3266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ducks","tag-slice-of-life","tag-stress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-QG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}