{"id":346,"date":"2011-01-22T22:02:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T20:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2011-01-22T22:02:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T20:02:55","slug":"cracking-the-credit-card-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"Cracking the Credit Card Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-78\" href=\"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/?attachment_id=78\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-78\" title=\"Interesting\" src=\"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tips-190x190-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tips-190x190-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tips-190x190.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> Have you ever wondered how the banks or financial service providers determine the numbers on your credit card?\u00a0Contrary to what you may think, they aren\u2019t random. Those 16 digits are there for a reason and, knowing a few simple rules, you could actually learn a lot about a credit card just from its number. This infographic from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mint.com\/blog\/trends\/credit-card-code-01202011\/\" target=\"_blank\">mint.com<\/a> shows you how to crack that code.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-360\" href=\"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/?attachment_id=360\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-360\" title=\"Cracking the Credit Card Code\" src=\"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/CrackingCreditCode.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/CrackingCreditCode.jpg 600w, http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/CrackingCreditCode-105x300.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(image credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mint.com\/blog\/trends\/credit-card-code-01202011\/\" target=\"_blank\">mint.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered how the banks or financial service providers determine the numbers on your credit card?\u00a0Contrary to what you may think, they aren\u2019t random. Those 16 digits are there for a reason and, knowing a few simple rules, you could actually learn a lot about a credit card just from its number. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-finds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}