{"id":1538,"date":"2017-12-27T13:47:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T18:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2017-12-27T13:47:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T18:47:19","slug":"the-thought-that-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1538","title":{"rendered":"The Thought That Counts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_5341-e1514400324826.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1539\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_5341-e1514400324826-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_5341-e1514400324826-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_5341-e1514400324826-768x686.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_5341-e1514400324826-1024x915.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_5341-e1514400324826.jpg 1079w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a>Ever gotten a bad gift and wondered if it was meant to hurt your feelings? \u00a0Deborah Y. Cohn, associate professor of marketing at New York Institute of Technology explores the many reasons people select certain gifts for others, often to the detriment of relationships. \u00a0Are we really that mean? \u00a0Apparently so, or we find\u00a0that gifts are an easy and quiet\u00a0way to tell someone what you really think. \u00a0Food for thought when shopping for next Christmas!<\/p>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/posteverything\/wp\/2017\/12\/25\/this-is-why-people-give-bad-christmas-gifts\/?utm_term=.f9912802bbd5\">This is why people give bad Christmas gifts\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever gotten a bad gift and wondered if it was meant to hurt your feelings? \u00a0Deborah Y. Cohn, associate professor of marketing at New York Institute of Technology explores the many reasons people select certain gifts for others, often to the detriment of relationships. \u00a0Are we really that mean? \u00a0Apparently so, or we find\u00a0that gifts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1538\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Thought That Counts?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459],"tags":[1091,1093,1090,1092,1094,1045,1095,903],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-christmas-gifts","tag-gift-giving","tag-gifts","tag-mean","tag-opinions-of-others","tag-personal","tag-psychology-of-gift-giving","tag-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}