{"id":248604,"date":"2026-04-02T15:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/248604\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:28:07","slug":"building-smart-money-habits-during-financial-literacy-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/248604\/","title":{"rendered":"Building smart money habits during Financial Literacy Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 April is Financial Literacy Month, and experts are taking time to make sure young people are prepared to handle the financial challenges that may come in their futures.<\/p>\n<p>Building smart money habits early on can make it easier to stay financially secure throughout life.<\/p>\n<p>Author and Financial Expert Dr. Paris Wood joined ARC Bakersfield to share tips to help young people take better control of their finances.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Wood says one of the most important financial lessons anyone can learn is to focus on saving rather than spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 April is Financial Literacy Month, and experts are taking time to make sure young&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-248604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}