{"id":769,"date":"2009-05-20T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/20\/how-bad-is-the-mortgage-crisis\/"},"modified":"2009-05-20T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T12:40:00","slug":"how-bad-is-the-mortgage-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/20\/how-bad-is-the-mortgage-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"How bad is the mortgage crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re making horror movies about it.  Yes.  That&#8217;s right. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p-REviL75zg\">&#8220;Drag Me To Hell&#8221;<\/a> is a new monster-movie-haunted-house-slasher picture directed by Sam Raimi (the guy who reinvented &#8220;Spider Man&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>This time around, the victim is a young woman who also happens to be a loan officer.<\/p>\n<p>In the old days, you knew a woman was in trouble in these movies if she had sex:  Sex=death in the parlance of gore-fests.<\/p>\n<p>This woman&#8217;s big mistake?  She refuses to grant a mortgage extension to the wrong customer and draws the evil eye.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Soon it will be you who comes begging to me!&#8221; cackles the witch who exacts a supernatural revenge over her foreclosure. <\/p>\n<p>Horror movies have always been one peculiar lens on the American zeitgeist, from the conformity pods of Invasion of the Body Snatchers to the mall-zombies of the Night of the Living Dead series.<\/p>\n<p>In this flick, the dastardly witch cries out, &#8220;Where will I live?  Never have I begged for anything!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then she dooms the loan officer to hell for eternity.  Maybe she&#8217;ll take out Bernie Madoff next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re making horror movies about it. Yes. That&#8217;s right. &#8220;Drag Me To Hell&#8221; is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}