{"id":199804,"date":"2025-12-19T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/199804\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:12:10","slug":"modern-morals-i-buy-my-cousin-a-thoughtful-gift-every-christmas-but-she-never-gets-me-anything-in-return-should-i-not-bother-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/199804\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Morals: I buy my cousin a thoughtful gift every Christmas, but she never gets me anything in return \u2013 should I not bother this year?"},"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\">\nI put a lot of thought into the present and spend at least \u20ac50, but I wonder if she\u2019d even care if I didn\u2019t get her something this year\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'My cousin never reciprocates when given her Christmas gift'. Photo: Picture posed\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tyImages_2243706972.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)\">&#8216;My cousin never reciprocates when given her Christmas gift&#8217;. 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)\">I get my cousin a beautiful, thoughtful gift every year. We usually do a trip into town this time of year and me and my daughter put a lot of thought into picking out things she likes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I put a lot of thought into the present and spend at least \u20ac50, but I wonder if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,11784,112],"class_list":["post-199804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-katie-byrne","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199804","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=199804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}