{"id":1211,"date":"2017-03-27T19:48:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T19:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/money\/?page_id=1211"},"modified":"2017-03-27T19:48:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T19:48:11","slug":"april-financial-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/smmo-blog\/april-financial-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"April Financial Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Trim some financial fat and win a prize!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1236 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/03\/Blog-Art-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/03\/Blog-Art-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/03\/Blog-Art-150x122.jpg 150w, https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/03\/Blog-Art.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Folks, we\u2019re going on a financial diet for the entire month of April and would like for you to join us!<\/p>\n<p>Since April is Financial Literacy Month, the Student Money Management Office (SMMO) would like to celebrate with you by trimming some financial fat.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that 66 million Americans do not have anything in savings? That\u2019s absolutely nothing, nada, niente!<\/p>\n<p>When our budgets are tight, it\u2019s easy to think that saving\u00a0is out of reach, but that\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n<p>The Financial Diet Challenge will start Saturday, April 3rd and the goal is to save money by spending less than $25 per week and placing the excess into an emergency savings fund. The SMMO team is excited about this challenge and will be there with you every step of the way.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Here are the guidelines of the challenge:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Spend less than <strong>$25<\/strong> per week on incidentals like lunch and entertainment<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Document your progress by sharing pics on our social media platforms<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Use the hashtags <strong>#ACCSaves<\/strong> and <strong>#ACCMoney<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Winners will receive our Money Management Toolkit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><div class=\"button small right\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"button color\" href=\"\">Sign me up<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trim some financial fat and win a prize! Folks, we\u2019re going on a financial diet for the entire month of April and would like for you to join us! Since April is Financial Literacy Month, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/smmo-blog\/april-financial-challenge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smmo-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}