{"id":3881,"date":"2012-09-18T11:49:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T18:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/?p=3881"},"modified":"2022-03-25T22:30:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T05:30:02","slug":"apparently-my-3-year-old-thinks-she-needs-a-credit-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/apparently-my-3-year-old-thinks-she-needs-a-credit-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Apparently, my 3-year-old thinks she needs a credit card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/credit-card-application.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"367\" data-attachment-id=\"6087\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/apparently-my-3-year-old-thinks-she-needs-a-credit-card\/credit-card-application\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/credit-card-application.png?fit=800%2C459\" data-orig-size=\"800,459\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"credit-card-application\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;my 3-year-old completes a credit card application&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/credit-card-application.png?fit=640%2C367\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/credit-card-application.png?resize=640%2C367\" alt=\"gem wants a credit card\" class=\"wp-image-6087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/credit-card-application.png?resize=640%2C367 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/credit-card-application.png?resize=300%2C172 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/credit-card-application.png?w=800 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I let my little girl play with the junk mail because she loves the pictures, and the bold, eye-catching fonts are great for learning letter recognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I didn&#8217;t expect her to fill out a credit card application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some day soon, I&#8217;m afraid our junk mail games will have to include a conversation about usurious interest rates, and the weight of debt. But for today, I&#8217;m just going to marvel at her form completion skills. This is an important life skill; it&#8217;s practice for the SATs, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I let my little girl play with the junk mail because she loves the pictures, and the bold, eye-catching fonts are great for learning letter recognition.<\/p>\n<p>But I didn&#8217;t expect her to fill out a credit card application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[138],"tags":[42,272,671,792],"class_list":["post-3881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parenting-living-well","tag-funny","tag-gem","tag-life-lessons-2","tag-money-management","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/credit-card-application.png?fit=800%2C459","blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/credit-card-application.png?resize=150%2C150",150,150,true],"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/credit-card-application.png?fit=800%2C459",800,459,false]},"categories_names":{"138":{"name":"Parenting &amp; 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