{"id":16407,"date":"2021-10-18T10:21:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T14:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=16407"},"modified":"2021-10-18T17:04:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T21:04:34","slug":"the-wedding-invitation-says-no-gifts-what-do-i-get-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/10\/18\/the-wedding-invitation-says-no-gifts-what-do-i-get-them\/","title":{"rendered":"The wedding invitation says &#8220;no gifts.&#8221; What do I get them?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1133.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"274\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1133.jpg\" alt=\"The wedding invitation says &quot;no gifts.&quot; What do I get them?\" class=\"wp-image-16401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1133.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1133-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The wedding invitation says &#8220;no gifts.&#8221; What do I get them?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You made me laugh! We all worry about this sort of thing. The possibilities seem to be: to ignore their request, to respect their request, or to finesse the request by, perhaps, making a donation to a cause in the amount you would have spent on a gift. Which works best &#8211; depends on the individual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You made me laugh! We all worry about this sort of thing. The possibilities seem to be: to ignore their request, to respect their request, or to finesse the request by, perhaps, making a donation to a cause in the amount you would have spent on a gift. Which works best &#8211; depends on the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/10\/18\/the-wedding-invitation-says-no-gifts-what-do-i-get-them\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The wedding invitation says &#8220;no gifts.&#8221; What do I get them?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16420,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16407\/revisions\/16420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}