{"id":337,"date":"2026-03-23T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/cfa-curriculum-week-one\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:15:00","slug":"cfa-curriculum-week-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/cfa-curriculum-week-one\/","title":{"rendered":"CFA Curriculum Week One. The Mountain and the Map."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Week one of the official curriculum felt like standing at a trailhead with a pack that might be too heavy. Quant methods, ethics, the polite warning that this will take years. I signed up anyway. I like mountains.<\/p>\n<p>I made a schedule with breaks for market walks and Thursday soup night because burnout helps nobody, especially not learners my age. I color-coded readings. I joined a forum where people share confusion without shame.<\/p>\n<p>I do not know if I will pass level one on the first try. I know I will understand money markets better than I did last year, and that knowledge is for me and my household first. Not advice for yours.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck. I brought snacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volume one opened like a door. I stepped through with highlighters. Not financial advice\u2014just beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studying-markets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}