{"id":646681,"date":"2026-06-19T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T05:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646681\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T05:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T05:56:11","slug":"he-hid-the-a-la-carte-menu-who-should-pay-on-the-first-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646681\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;He hid the a la carte menu&#8217;: Who should pay on the first date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jamie Rutter, 32, who works in finance, says clear communication is more important than sticking to a rigid rule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As a queer person it can get confusing because you don&#8217;t have those traditional expectations around who should pay,&#8221; he says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My view is that if I ask someone out, I expect to pay. If they ask me out, I&#8217;d go in expecting to pay my half.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jamie says having become more conscious about his finances in recent years, he&#8217;s very upfront on a date about what he can and cannot afford. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If someone suggested somewhere expensive and it was outside my budget, I&#8217;d just be honest and suggest a different place.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie Rutter, 32, who works in finance, says clear communication is more important than sticking to a rigid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-646681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}