{"id":8636,"date":"2020-02-10T15:19:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T15:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/10\/best-free-credit-cards\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:31:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:31:57","slug":"best-free-credit-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/best-free-credit-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Best &#8216;free&#8217; credit cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/credit-cards\/free\/#expert=Jonathan_Handy\">WalletHub<\/a> taps the expertise of Furman University Assistant Professor of Finance Jonathan Handy for his take on &#8220;free credit card&#8221; offers from lenders. While the lure of the word &#8220;free&#8221; is strong, Handy cautions would-be takers on the risk of building up too much debt in the near term that could be difficult to pay off later. &#8220;The [credit card] companies gamble that the average individual is not disciplined enough to curb their immediate spending habits and will incur long-lasting payments,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WalletHub taps the expertise of Furman University Assistant Professor of Finance Jonathan Handy for his take on &#8220;free credit card&#8221; offers from lenders. While the lure of the word &#8220;free&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-business-and-accounting","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}