{"id":19425,"date":"2012-07-01T11:13:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T15:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=19425"},"modified":"2012-07-01T11:13:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T15:13:42","slug":"sunday-fun-is-short-selling-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/01\/sunday-fun-is-short-selling-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Fun: Is Short Selling Bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s Sunday Fun introduced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/\"><strong>Khan Academy<\/strong><\/a>. I was browsing through the 3,200 video tutorials available and found some really interesting investing and finance content.<\/p>\n<p>When I saw this, it caught my attention since I <!--more-->have a few friends that think short-selling is the worst thing that ever happened to stocks. When I try to explain, they tune out anything that I say.<\/p>\n<p>This is a really good primer on shorting. I especially like the discussion about cheer-leading.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zAkMhEqWFF0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s Sunday Fun introduced Khan Academy. I was browsing through the 3,200 video tutorials available and found some really interesting investing and finance content. When I saw this, it caught my attention since I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[266],"class_list":["post-19425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markets","tag-sunday-fun","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}