{"id":8707,"date":"2020-03-09T05:55:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T10:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=8707"},"modified":"2020-02-13T10:45:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:45:33","slug":"the-beginners-guide-to-building-a-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/the-beginners-guide-to-building-a-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"The beginner\u2019s guide to building a budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to get a grip on your spending?\u00a0 \u00a0This will help guide you along to that first important step of actually creating a realistic budget.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/the-beginners-guide-to-building-a-budget-2019-08-09\">The beginner&#8217;s guide to building a budget<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Many people live above their means and don&#8217;t even realize it. When you want to improve your financial health, the one piece of advice you hear most often is to start a budget. Budgeting helps you better understand how you spend your money and shows you ways to manage your money, pay off debts and save for future financial goals.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to get a grip on your spending?\u00a0 \u00a0This will help guide you along to that first important step of actually\u00a0creating a realistic budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ei.marketwatch.com\/Multimedia\/2019\/08\/02\/Photos\/ZH\/MW-HO728_cr_beg_20190802105659_ZH.jpg?uuid=c755a3dc-b535-11e9-ae7d-9c8e992d421e","fifu_image_alt":"The beginner\u2019s guide to building a budget","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[399,400,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-8707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-budgeting","9":"tag-employeesupport","10":"tag-financialwellness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8712,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707\/revisions\/8712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}