{"id":227467,"date":"2024-06-03T02:47:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T02:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/i-feel-like-an-idiot-i-need-every-cent-to-retire-i-gave-a-friend-20000-to-buy-me-a-car-he-ghosted-me-i-called-the-police-what-options-do-i-have\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:18:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:18:02","slug":"i-feel-like-an-idiot-i-need-every-cent-to-retire-i-gave-a-friend-20000-to-buy-me-a-car-he-ghosted-me-i-called-the-police-what-options-do-i-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/i-feel-like-an-idiot-i-need-every-cent-to-retire-i-gave-a-friend-20000-to-buy-me-a-car-he-ghosted-me-i-called-the-police-what-options-do-i-have\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I feel like an idiot. I need every cent to retire\u2019: I gave a friend $20,000 to buy me a car. He ghosted me. I called the police. What options do I have?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-95964166\" \/><br \/>\u201cWe met several times in person, and he explained that once I gave him the money that I could trust him.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/i-feel-like-an-idiot-i-need-every-cent-to-retire-i-gave-a-friend-20-000-to-buy-me-a-car-he-ghosted-me-i-called-the-police-what-options-do-i-have-b40d04e7?mod=mw_rss_topstories\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] \u201cWe met several times in person, and he explained that once I gave him the money that I could trust him.\u201d [ad_2] Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}