{"id":1046,"date":"2015-04-09T17:02:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2015-04-09T17:02:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T22:02:09","slug":"charge-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"Charge It"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CreditCardLogos_000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1047\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CreditCardLogos_000-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"CreditCardLogos_000\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CreditCardLogos_000-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CreditCardLogos_000.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Although this article is for recent college grads, there are plenty of great tips about understanding your credit score and how it works for and against you. \u00a0For example, did you know that borrowing\u00a0less than thirty percent of your available credit actually makes your credit score increase? \u00a0Marilyn Lewis, in her article,<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moneytalksnews.com\/11-ways-for-college-grads-build-good-credit\/\">12 Ways for College Grads to Build Good Credit<\/a>\u00a0lays out basic steps to growing and maintaining your score as well as diversifying the types of credit you are using. \u00a0Many believe paying in cash is an important skill to learn but a healthy credit score may be even more useful. \u00a0So, every once in a while it&#8217;s a good thing to pull out the plastic and say, &#8220;Charge it.&#8221;<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although this article is for recent college grads, there are plenty of great tips about understanding your credit score and how it works for and against you. \u00a0For example, did you know that borrowing\u00a0less than thirty percent of your available credit actually makes your credit score increase? \u00a0Marilyn Lewis, in her article,\u00a012 Ways for College &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1046\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Charge It<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[293,297,295,296,294,292,291],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-finances","tag-borrowing","tag-building-credit","tag-charge-it","tag-college-grads","tag-credit","tag-credit-cards","tag-credit-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}