{"id":533,"date":"2007-12-23T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T00:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/23\/dinners-instead-of-presents\/"},"modified":"2007-12-23T17:00:47","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T00:00:47","slug":"dinners-instead-of-presents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/dinners-instead-of-presents\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinners Instead of Presents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a lot of people that I know, instead of buying friends and family members presents during the holiday they simply invite everyone to a restaurant and pay for everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s meal.  That way, they avoid having to go through all that shopping frenzy while still accomplishing the goal of doing something nice for people.<\/p>\n<p>It might sound little silly, but I am usually a bit conscience on what I order in these cases as I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to rack up the bill for the person who is paying.  Just like the other day where the person kept asking if I wanted to order anything to drink and I just insisted that water was fine.  Similar to receiving gifts, I tend to not want people to spend too much financially on myself as you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need expensive things to make people happy.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a lot of people that I know, instead of buying friends and family members presents during the holiday they simply invite everyone to a restaurant and pay for everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s meal. That way, they avoid having to go through all that shopping frenzy while still accomplishing the goal of doing something nice for people. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[319,365,364],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-gifts","tag-paying-for-meals","tag-restaurants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMAG1057.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-8B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}