{"id":176304,"date":"2025-12-05T09:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/176304\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T09:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:48:12","slug":"modern-morals-the-cost-of-hosting-christmas-dinner-at-our-house-is-huge-can-we-ask-family-to-chip-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/176304\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Morals: The cost of hosting Christmas dinner at our house is huge. Can we ask family to chip in?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Will they think we\u2019re skinflints or understand it\u2019s because of the cost-of-living crisis?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Christmas has become more expensive than ever before, especially when you factor in the cost of food and drink. Photo: Picture posed\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/41f7b42b-1fd6-4701-8c82-b3eb98022fa1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Christmas has become more expensive than ever before, especially when you factor in the cost of food and drink. Photo: Picture posed\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Myself and my husband have hosted Christmas dinner for our extended family for the past few years. He\u2019s a great cook, I love hosting and our house is on the larger side, so it makes sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will they think we\u2019re skinflints or understand it\u2019s because of the cost-of-living crisis? Christmas has become more expensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,11784],"class_list":["post-176304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-katie-byrne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}