{"id":1817,"date":"2007-01-12T09:30:44","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T17:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/01\/12\/paid-off\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:41:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:41:31","slug":"paid-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/01\/12\/paid-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Paid Off!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty minutes ago I logged on to my student loan account to see if my AmeriCorps education award had cleared. It had! That left a balance of $1,009, and I made an electronic payment, effective today, to pay it off. <\/p>\n<p><strong>No more student loan.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s $65,000 paid off in the last 2.5 years; my entire income since late 2004 had gone to paying it, and we threw some savings at it as well. I could not have done this without Husband. I&#8217;m very blessed that he didn&#8217;t blanch at the debt when he met me. Well, maybe he turned a <em>little<\/em> pale, but the prospect of helping pay this loan didn&#8217;t overwhelm his love for me. What a man!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty minutes ago I logged on to my student loan account to see if my AmeriCorps education award had cleared. It had! That left a balance of $1,009, and I made an electronic payment, effective today, to pay it off. No more student loan. That&#8217;s $65,000 paid off in the last 2.5 years; my entire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11202,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/11202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}