{"id":103,"date":"2009-03-20T09:24:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T13:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/?p=103"},"modified":"2009-03-20T09:24:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T13:24:55","slug":"how-much-is-your-cell-phone-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"How Much is Your Cell Phone Bill?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/archive\/years\/2009\/0319091david1.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Smoking Gun<\/a> has a report about Marie Douglas-David who is claiming to have $53,826 per week in expenses as part of her divorce filing.\u00a0 Sure, that&#8217;s a lot of money, translating into almost $3 million per year.\u00a0 But what shocked me was in the break down she claimed a cell phone bill of $481 per week.<\/p>\n<p>Not per month&#8230; $481 per week.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, seriously now&#8230; who the Hell pays that much for their cell phone?\u00a0 How is that even possible?<\/p>\n<p>I could call Obama&#8217;s grandmother at that mudfarm village in Africa and then just leave the phone connected all month and still have a lower cell phone bill.<\/p>\n<p>Some other interesting costs of living for Marie:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$8,000 per week in travel<\/li>\n<li>$1,500 per week in &#8220;entertainment\/restaurants&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>And this one is just too lovely to fully contemplate&#8230; $1,000 per week in skin and hair care.<\/li>\n<li>Not that skin and hair are everything&#8230; it also evidently costs Marie $4,500 to clothe herself each week.<\/li>\n<li>Mind you, that clothing bill does not include keeping her clothes clean.\u00a0 THAT is an additional $650 per week for dry cleaning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Times are hard, my friends.\u00a0 Clearly this poor girl deserves more than the pitance to which she&#8217;s been relagated.\u00a0 After all, she does note in her financial affidavit, &#8220;while recognizing that many of the expenses may seem high, most are lower than prior to the commencement of this case in August 2007.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, that makes it all ok, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smoking Gun has a report about Marie Douglas-David who is claiming to have $53,826 per week in expenses as part of her divorce filing.\u00a0 Sure, that&#8217;s a lot of money, translating into almost $3 million per year.\u00a0 But what shocked me was in the break down she claimed a cell phone bill of $481 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[79,80],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-noise","tag-divorce","tag-rich"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}