{"id":2,"date":"2009-02-10T18:38:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T01:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dadcents.com\/\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2010-10-08T19:37:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T02:37:23","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.connect.facebook.com\/js\/api_lib\/v0.4\/FeatureLoader.js.php\/en_US\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n  FB.init(\"55488dea6e782efbb3b81f2f3551511c\");\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:8px; padding-left:10px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dadcents\">Dad Cents<\/a> on Facebook<\/div>\n<address style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><em><strong>Welcome to Dad Cents!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My name is Shane Barkley, author of Dad Cents and\u00a0President of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtfs.org\">Dad the Family Shepherd<\/a>.\u00a0 You might ask &#8220;Why is a book like this needed?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0If you would\u00a0research the\u00a0availability of materials\u00a0for dads\u00a0you would be surprised.\u00a0\u00a0Your surprise would come from the amount of\u00a0or better yet the lack of assistance for dads in regard to teaching\u00a0Biblical principles of money.<\/p>\n<p>My passion for this subject comes from my 10 years experience in the financial consulting field and the fact that I have three daughters myself. 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