{"id":971,"date":"2020-06-25T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?p=971"},"modified":"2020-06-27T18:52:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:52:22","slug":"paid-off-the-mortgage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?p=971","title":{"rendered":"Paid Off the Mortgage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is a huge day at Formstone Castle.  We&#8217;ve paid off the mortgage!  We set an ambitious goal to pay the house off in 5 years, but still set the terms of the mortgage to 10.  8 years in, and during a pandemic, we&#8217;ve managed to scrape together enough money to make those final payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"854\" src=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/106512451_10158738325969287_7028803972683175305_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/106512451_10158738325969287_7028803972683175305_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/106512451_10158738325969287_7028803972683175305_n-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/106512451_10158738325969287_7028803972683175305_n-768x683.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We were hoping to have a huge 4th of July block party and bash to celebrate, but Covid-19 has postponed that plan.  For now we&#8217;ll enjoy the view from the deck and have a little champagne with Siri&#8217;s family over Zoom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a huge day at Formstone Castle. We&#8217;ve paid off the mortgage! We set an ambitious goal to pay &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?p=971\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home_improvement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}