{"id":271160,"date":"2010-02-03T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655103.post-7975404911900308037"},"modified":"2010-02-03T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T12:45:00","slug":"unwritten-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/271160","title":{"rendered":"Unwritten Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S2jOm6hVTEI\/AAAAAAAAFC0\/XNpaGffBfss\/s1600-h\/rules.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S2jOm6hVTEI\/AAAAAAAAFC0\/XNpaGffBfss\/s320\/rules.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433820118361918530\" \/><\/a>A good friend of mine recently went to a traditional Chinese wedding, and as she excitedly rattled off the list of &#8220;do nots&#8221; she&#8217;s been told (such as don&#8217;t: wear white, give a picture frame, give anything with a 4 in it, give a clock&#8230;and DO give cash -in sums with 8 or 9-in a red envelope)&#8230;I started thinking about all the &#8220;unwritten rules&#8221; out there. <\/p>\n<p>Like, haggling a Craig&#8217;s List price. Apparently, if you want to negotiate a price on Craig&#8217;s List you need to do it via the phone or email BEFORE you go to the person&#8217;s house. It&#8217;s considered gauche to do so once you&#8217;re there.<\/p>\n<p>And I don&#8217;t know if I believe this one, but I was recently told that a second date from one of the match sites implies there will be copulation. Wow, good thing I&#8217;m not single&#8230;I value myself a little more than two Jack Daniel&#8217;s steaks at TGIF&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>List more&#8230;I want to make sure I&#8217;m not committing social faux pas everywhere!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7655103-7975404911900308037?l=mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good friend of mine recently went to a traditional Chinese wedding, and as she excitedly rattled off the list of &#8220;do nots&#8221; she&#8217;s been told (such as don&#8217;t: wear white, give a picture frame, give anything with a 4 in it, give a clock&#8230;and DO give cash -in sums with 8 or 9-in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}