{"id":218463,"date":"2010-01-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/entry\/ftc_joins_the_blogosphere1"},"modified":"2010-01-06T14:19:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T19:19:08","slug":"ftc-joins-the-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218463","title":{"rendered":"FTC Joins the Blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/resource\/images\/ncpw_screenshot.JPG\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" \/>Welcome to former GovGab blogger Nicole Vincent who now works at the Federal Trade Commission. In today&#8217;s guest post, she&#8217;ll introduce you to a brand new consumer protection blog definitely worth checking out! <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Longtime Gov Gab readers might remember me as the Friday blogger. It\u2019s great to come back and visit my old friends. As I mentioned in <a title=\"last GovGab post\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/entry\/read_the_fine_print\">my final Gov Gab post<\/a>, I\u2019m still active in consumer education, now with the <a title=\"Federal Trade Commission\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/\">Federal Trade Commission<\/a>. And I\u2019m happy to announce that the FTC has launched its very own <a title=\"consumer education blog\" href=\"http:\/\/consumer.gov\/ncpw\/blog\/\">consumer education blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We plan to use the new blog to get folks jazzed up about <a title=\"National Consumer Protection Week\" href=\"http:\/\/consumer.gov\/ncpw\/\">National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW) 2010<\/a>. NCPW is an annual consumer protection event that encourages individuals across the country to take full advantage of their consumer rights. NCPW 2010 is March 7-13. This year\u2019s theme \u2013 <b>Dollars &amp; Sense: Rated \u201cA\u201d for All Ages<\/b> \u2013 highlights the importance of using good consumer sense at every stage of life \u2013 from grade school to retirement.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"National Consumer Protection Week\" href=\"http:\/\/consumer.gov\/ncpw\/\">NCPW site<\/a> features resources that you can use to protect your privacy, manage money and debt, avoid identity theft, understand credit and mortgages, and steer clear of frauds and scams.<\/p>\n<p>On <a title=\"consumer education blog\" href=\"http:\/\/consumer.gov\/ncpw\/blog\/\">the blog<\/a>, consumers and consumer advocates can connect with one another and share resources, tips and outreach ideas. You can check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/consumer.gov\/ncpw\/my-new-year%E2%80%99s-resolution-eat-less-exercise-more-and-lose-a-few-or-more-pounds\/\" title=\"Weight loss programs\">recent post on weight loss programs<\/a> or read about our <a title=\"consumer resources for kids\" href=\"http:\/\/consumer.gov\/ncpw\/it%E2%80%99s-never-too-early-for-dollars-and-sense\/\">consumer resources for kids<\/a>. Come visit, and let us know how you plan to participate in NCPW 2010!&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to former GovGab blogger Nicole Vincent who now works at the Federal Trade Commission. In today&#8217;s guest post, she&#8217;ll introduce you to a brand new consumer protection blog definitely worth checking out! Longtime Gov Gab readers might remember me as the Friday blogger. It\u2019s great to come back and visit my old friends. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}