{"id":8,"date":"2007-03-15T18:18:18","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T02:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adrianandgenese.com\/blogger\/?p=8"},"modified":"2007-03-15T18:22:38","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T02:22:38","slug":"adult-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianandgenese.com\/blogger\/2007\/03\/15\/adult-hood\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult-hood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So yeah, I guess ive slowly come to realize that im\u00c2\u00a0officially an adult. I still dont feel like it, act like it, or really like it,\u00c2\u00a0but then again I guess it depends on your personal perspective on what constitutes an adult. Anyways, I guess as an adult one takes care of their finances. So yeah, ive been looking at money and investing and find that its not quite as difficult as I thought it would be. For those of you who havent done your taxes, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hrblock.com\/taxes\/partner\/index.jsp?otpPartnerId=2409\" title=\"Taxcut Premium\">click here<\/a> for a free copy of Taxcut Premium and Deduction Pro (make sure you uncheck the &#8220;extended\u00c2\u00a0download protection&#8221; to make it free).<\/p>\n<p>As well, if you have ING Direct, you may also open a traditional IRA to maximize the deductions on your taxes&#8230;currently you can add up to $4,000 if youre young enough&#8230;However, if you have a retirement plan sponsored by your employer, your tax deductions may actually be minimized. In that case, if you fall within the right income bracket, you should probably just open up a Roth IRA instead. Also, if you use ING to open an IRA, they have no-load or commission-free mutual funds to put your IRA to good use. I think I have to open mine tonight&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I cut my hand today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianandgenese.com\/blogger\/2007\/03\/15\/adult-hood\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So yeah, I guess ive slowly come to realize that im\u00c2\u00a0officially an adult. I still dont feel like it, act like it, or really like it,\u00c2\u00a0but then again I guess it depends on your personal perspective on what constitutes an adult. Anyways, I guess as an adult one takes care of their finances. So yeah, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nothingness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/preRH-8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianandgenese.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianandgenese.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianandgenese.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianandgenese.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianandgenese.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianandgenese.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianandgenese.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianandgenese.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianandgenese.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}