{"id":6292,"date":"2025-07-10T11:32:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T11:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=6292"},"modified":"2025-07-10T11:32:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T11:32:31","slug":"the-anniversary-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=6292","title":{"rendered":"The Anniversary \u201cTreat\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"42\" data-end=\"206\">Amanda invited us to a fancy dinner for her and Jeff\u2019s 15th anniversary, saying sweetly, \u201cIt\u2019s our treat, honey.\u201d We even brought a $200 gift card to be thoughtful.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"208\" data-end=\"385\">Dinner was lovely\u2014until the bill came. With a smile, Amanda told the waiter, \u201cWe\u2019ll take this one,\u201d then gestured at us and said, \u201cAnd they\u2019ll take that one.\u201d Our share? $1,122.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"387\" data-end=\"490\">Shocked, I asked, \u201cWeren\u2019t we your guests?\u201d She replied, \u201cWe invited you to <em data-start=\"463\" data-end=\"469\">join<\/em>, not <em data-start=\"475\" data-end=\"480\">pay<\/em> for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"492\" data-end=\"662\">The next day, I posted the receipt, her message, and their smiling faces on Facebook with the caption: \u201cModern etiquette: invite guests, then bill them. #lessonlearned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"664\" data-end=\"792\">Amanda begged me to take it down. I refused. \u201cI don\u2019t want the money,\u201d I said. \u201cI want you to feel what humiliation looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"794\" data-end=\"858\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">We haven\u2019t spoken since \u2014 and honestly, that silence? Priceless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda invited us to a fancy dinner for her and Jeff\u2019s 15th anniversary, saying sweetly, \u201cIt\u2019s our treat, honey.\u201d We even brought a $200 gift card to be thoughtful. Dinner was lovely\u2014until the bill came. With a smile, Amanda told the waiter, \u201cWe\u2019ll take this one,\u201d then gestured at us and said, \u201cAnd they\u2019ll take &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6294,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292\/revisions\/6294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}