{"id":1345,"date":"2009-06-16T10:48:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T14:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2009-06-16T11:01:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T15:01:08","slug":"credit-card-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/06\/16\/credit-card-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit card relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1359\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/06\/391113_wallet.jpg\" alt=\"391113_wallet\" width=\"100\" height=\"80\" \/>Although few creditors will confirm it, credit-card companies are increasingly <a title=\"willing to settle delinquent accounts for less than owed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/16\/your-money\/credit-and-debit-cards\/16credit.html?ref=your-money\" target=\"_blank\">willing to settle delinquent accounts for less than owed<\/a>, with front-line employees empowered to cut deals with customers.\u00a0 The School of Law&#8217;s <a title=\"Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/morincenter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law <\/a>lecturer Richard Hackett, an expert on credit-card law, can talk about the shifting industry guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Richard Hackett, 207-791-1280, <a href=\"mailto:rhackett@pierceatwood.com\">rhackett@pierceatwood.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although few creditors will confirm it, credit-card companies are increasingly willing to settle delinquent accounts for less than owed, with front-line employees empowered to cut deals with customers.\u00a0 The School of Law&#8217;s Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law lecturer Richard Hackett, an expert on credit-card law, can talk about the shifting industry guidelines. Contact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1277,1276],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}