{"id":3254,"date":"2019-05-21T14:07:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T18:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:08:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T18:08:04","slug":"they-were-conned-how-reckless-loans-devastated-a-generation-of-taxi-drivers-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=3254","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They Were Conned\u2019: How Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi Drivers &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/19\/nyregion\/nyc-taxis-medallions-suicides.html\">\u2018They Were Conned\u2019: How Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi Drivers &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think I could concoct a more predatory scheme if I tried,\u201d said Roger Bertling, the senior instructor at Harvard Law School\u2019s clinic on predatory lending and consumer protection. \u201cThis was modern-day indentured servitude.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-3254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}