{"id":5,"date":"2009-02-25T21:28:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T05:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2011-05-14T10:24:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T18:24:40","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the <strong>BudgeX Blog<\/strong>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m Alif Khalfan, a recent graduate of Stanford and the founder of <a title=\"BudgeX personal finance software\" href=\"http:\/\/www.budgex.net\" target=\"_blank\">BudgeX<\/a>.\u00a0 I founded BudgeX to challenge the belief that gaining control of and managing your personal finances is a daunting task.\u00a0 The software helps you create a budget in less than 15 minutes and has built-in expense tracking functionality as well.<\/p>\n<p>In this blog I will show you how to save money and learn the art of financial discipline by providing you with proven strategies to reduce costs in several aspects of your life.\u00a0 This blog will be a resource\u00a0 to those who are seeking advice and those who wish to offer it as well.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I will make an effort to find a deal for something that&#8217;s either free or a very good deal and post it at the end of every article.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not talking about those insignificant items, like a <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/blog\/outgoing\/www.giftredemptiongallery.com\/index.php?o=1679091c5a880faf6fb5e6087eb1b2dc&amp;ref=3001');\" title=\"free kleenex sample\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.giftredemptiongallery.com\/index.php?o=1679091c5a880faf6fb5e6087eb1b2dc&amp;ref=3001\" target=\"_blank\">free kleenex sample<\/a>, but something worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&#8217;s money-saving offer: <\/strong><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/blog\/outgoing\/freesample.totalcereal.com\/TotalCranCrunch\/Default.aspx');\" title=\"Total Cranberry Crunch ceral\"  href=\"http:\/\/freesample.totalcereal.com\/TotalCranCrunch\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Free Total Cranberry Crunch cereal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin: 12px;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-8699601415085750\";\r\n\/* Blog Ad 468x60 *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7288488553\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A welcome message from founder Alif Khalfan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}