{"id":31703,"date":"2019-01-02T20:14:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T01:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=31703"},"modified":"2019-01-02T20:14:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T01:14:45","slug":"an-unwelcome-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=31703","title":{"rendered":"An Unwelcome Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Monday afternoon, before leaving home to attend a New Year&#8217;s party, I checked my mailbox.  There was nothing of importance.  Nothing, that is, but a letter from my apartment managers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Guess whose rent is going up in the new year? Guess who hasn&#39;t had a pay raise since 2016?<br><br>Thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a>!<\/p>&mdash; Allyn Gibson (@allyngibson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allyngibson\/status\/1079823702257270784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The news that my rent was going up wasn&#8217;t a <em>complete<\/em> surprise &#8212; it&#8217;s gone up all but one year since I&#8217;ve lived here &#8212; but it was certainly an unwelcome one for the reason cited above: my expenses go up, my income stays the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My goal for 2019 is to change that calculus in some fashion.  That may mean taking on freelance work of some kind.  That may mean changing jobs (and careers) entirely.  A flat income with rising expenses, however, isn&#8217;t tenable over the long-term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday afternoon, before leaving home to attend a New Year&#8217;s party, I checked my mailbox. There was nothing of importance. Nothing, that is, but a letter from my apartment managers. The news that my rent was going up wasn&#8217;t a complete surprise &#8212; it&#8217;s gone up all but one year since I&#8217;ve lived here &#8212;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=31703\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;An Unwelcome Notice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":29632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[4717,4124],"class_list":["post-31703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-work","tag-life-captured","tag-work","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}