{"id":786,"date":"2008-11-27T00:53:02","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T05:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2008\/11\/27\/money-advice-from-bruce-bowen\/"},"modified":"2008-11-27T00:53:02","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T05:53:02","slug":"money-advice-from-bruce-bowen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/27\/money-advice-from-bruce-bowen\/","title":{"rendered":"Money Advice from Bruce Bowen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bowen On Matt Bonner:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pointer From <a href=\"http:\/\/myespn.go.com\/nba\/truehoop\">TrueHoop<\/a>:<br \/>\nDespite making $2.978 million this year and $3.256 next year, Bonner remains frugal. Former Spurs guard Brent Barry, who is now with the Houston Rockets, remembers a time in Sacramento when Bonner was getting a snack at his favorite spot: Subway.<br \/>\n\u201cMatt had a coupon for half off a sandwich, which said: \u2018Valid at participating stores only,&#8217;\u201d Barry said. \u201cThe owner said we&#8217;re not \u2018participating stores&#8217; and Matt was like \u2018Well aren&#8217;t you a Subway? I walk outside and I see the name \u2018Subway.&#8217;\u201d After 10 minutes, he talked his way to half off a turkey sandwich. He saved like $2.16.\u201d<br \/>\nAdded Bowen: <strong>\u201cIt&#8217;s not about what you make, it&#8217;s about what you keep. He understands that motto perfectly.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/sports\/spurs\/Spurs_Bonner_sees_himself_as_boring_guy.html\">Bonner sees himself as &#8216;boring guy&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bowen On Matt Bonner: Pointer From TrueHoop: Despite making $2.978 million this year and $3.256 next year, Bonner remains frugal. Former Spurs guard Brent Barry, who is now with the Houston Rockets, remembers a time in Sacramento when Bonner was getting a snack at his favorite spot: Subway. \u201cMatt had a coupon for half off &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/27\/money-advice-from-bruce-bowen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Money Advice from Bruce Bowen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice-for-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}