{"id":390,"date":"2002-06-02T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-03T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=390"},"modified":"2009-07-09T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T19:24:16","slug":"its-a-emgoodem-tax-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt&#8217;s a <em>good<\/em> tax code.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a young idealist, finance was beneath me; now it&#8217;s merely beyond me.<\/p>\n<p>I got a form letter from my late employer (a firm that essentially shut down in December), saying that my 401(a)(4) money is waiting for me to collect it.  I can transfer it into &#8220;an eligible employer plan&#8221; (if I had an eligible employer!) or into my IRA, or take it as cash (with a 10% penalty because I&#8217;m not 59&frac12; years old, as well as regular income tax).  Neither option appeals much.<\/p>\n<p>What I want is to buy a car.  My One True Ex says one can borrow against a 401 (wish I&#8217;d known that a year ago!), but it appears I won&#8217;t have one much longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a young idealist, finance was beneath me; now it&#8217;s merely beyond me. I got a form letter from my late employer (a firm that essentially shut down in December), saying that my 401(a)(4) money is waiting for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=390\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mememe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}