{"id":16406,"date":"2015-01-23T12:50:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T12:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=16406"},"modified":"2018-12-27T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T19:02:00","slug":"the-money-muppet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/the-money-muppet-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Money Muppet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-33015\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/money-muppet-square.jpg\" alt=\"money muppet logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\">When we returned to the UK in 2014, after two years of touring Europe in a motorhome, we set off on a journey to financially educate ourselves. I know it sounds a bit boring (not half as fun as driving over mountain passes or through the desert), but we had set ourselves a goal to become financially free. 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