{"id":4992,"date":"2013-02-23T08:26:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T14:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4992"},"modified":"2013-02-23T08:26:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T14:26:39","slug":"why-speaking-english-can-make-you-poor-when-you-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4992","title":{"rendered":"Why speaking English can make you poor when you retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-21518574\">Tim Bowler<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Could the language we speak skew our financial decision-making, and does the fact that you&#8217;re reading this in English make you less likely than a Mandarin speaker to save for your old age?<\/p>\n<p>It is a controversial theory which has been given some weight by new findings from a Yale University behavioural economist, Keith Chen.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Chen says his research proves that the grammar of the language we speak affects both our finances and our health.<\/p>\n<p>Bluntly, he says, if you speak English you are likely to save less for your old age, smoke more and get less exercise than if you speak a language like Mandarin, Yoruba or Malay.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Bowler: Could the language we speak skew our financial decision-making, and does the fact that you&#8217;re reading this in English make you less likely than a Mandarin speaker to save for your old age? It is a controversial theory which has been given some weight by new findings from a Yale University behavioural economist, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}