{"id":23430,"date":"2025-12-10T14:04:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=23430"},"modified":"2025-12-10T14:04:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:04:29","slug":"he-insisted-on-paying-the-bill-i-shouldve-seen-the-red-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=23430","title":{"rendered":"He Insisted on Paying the Bill \u2014 I Should\u2019ve Seen the Red Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When Eric showed up to our first date with roses and a monogrammed keychain with my initials, I thought I\u2019d hit the jackpot. He was charming, attentive, and even pulled my chair out for me. We met through mutual friends \u2014 Mia (my best friend) and Chris (his roommate) \u2014 so I felt pretty confident going in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He insisted on paying for everything, smiling as he said, \u201cA man pays on the first date.\u201d I thanked him, a little impressed by his confidence and manners. The conversation was decent, and while there weren\u2019t fireworks, he seemed sweet and respectful. That night, I went to bed feeling hopeful.Finally, a decent guy? Maybe? The next morning, I woke up to a text.I expected something cute, like: \u201cHad a great time. Hope to see you again.\u201d Instead, I got\u2026 an invoice. No, seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Eric showed up to our first date with roses and a monogrammed keychain with my initials, I thought I\u2019d hit the jackpot. He was charming, attentive,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":317,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23432,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23430\/revisions\/23432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}