{"id":946,"date":"2010-04-27T10:10:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T14:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ofa\/?page_id=946"},"modified":"2023-09-18T15:45:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:45:17","slug":"credit-cards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartmoney\/manage-your-money\/credit-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit Cards: Friend or Foe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even before you apply for a credit card, and certainly before you use it, ask yourself this question: Is a credit card your friend or your foe? Perhaps it\u2019s your friend when you need or want to make a purchase and it\u2019s your foe when you struggle to pay the bill.<\/p>\n<p>In truth, a credit card is neither friend nor foe, it\u2019s simply a tool: useful for some jobs, ill-suited for others.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, your credit card is a line of credit that allows you to borrow money instantly. It\u2019s a tool that makes borrowing very convenient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even before you apply for a credit card, and certainly before you use it, ask yourself this question: Is a credit card your friend or your foe? Perhaps it\u2019s your friend when you need or want to make a purchase and it\u2019s your foe when you struggle to pay the bill. In truth, a credit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1183,"featured_media":0,"parent":2357,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2441,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/946\/revisions\/2441"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}