{"id":30152,"date":"2019-09-04T16:41:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T21:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30152"},"modified":"2019-09-04T16:41:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T21:41:06","slug":"briefly-retired-teacher-from-mass-it-is-an-act-of-insanity-to-stay-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30152","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Retired teacher from Mass.: \u2018It is an act of insanity to stay in the U.S.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Mary-Taft-in-Boquete-Panama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30153\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Mary-Taft-in-Boquete-Panama.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Mary-Taft-in-Boquete-Panama.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Mary-Taft-in-Boquete-Panama-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More and more Americans are moving from their native cities to other countries, some for retirement and others because they see danger ahead for the U.S. Mary Taft is a retired teacher and school administrator from Massachusetts who wanted a comfortable and safe place to retire, because she said she saw \u201cthe social fabric is shattering\u201d in the country where she grew up. She now thinks it\u2019s a mistake for anybody to stay. \u201cIt is an act of insanity to continue to stay in the U.S.,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/it-is-an-act-of-insanity-to-stay-in-the-us-why-this-63-year-old-teacher-ditched-massachusetts-to-retire-in-the-highlands-of-panama-2019-08-23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she told MarketWatch<\/a>, in an article which looks at the factors that led her to choose Panama as her inexpensive retirement destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More and more Americans are moving from their native cities to other countries, some for retirement and others because they see danger ahead for the U.S. Mary Taft is a retired teacher and school administrator from Massachusetts who wanted a comfortable and safe place to retire, because she said she saw \u201cthe social fabric is <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30152\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7Qk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30154,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30152\/revisions\/30154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}