{"id":15676,"date":"2014-09-26T10:53:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T09:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15676"},"modified":"2014-09-26T10:54:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T09:54:09","slug":"who-was-the-first-to-suggest-a-standard-system-of-tipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15676","title":{"rendered":"Who was the first to suggest a standard system of tipping?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might be surprised &#8211; apparently the idea in Britain goes back at least to 1768, as you will see from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-29348952\">this story<\/a> on the BBC web site.<\/p>\n<p>Like many people, I really don&#8217;t like the system of tipping. It obscures the issue of low wages. One is never sure whom to tip and how much. And, if one travels abroad (as I do), one struggles to know the local practices. The USA is a nightmare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might be surprised &#8211; apparently the idea in Britain goes back at least to 1768, as you will see from\u00a0this story on the BBC web site. Like many people, I really don&#8217;t like the system of tipping. It obscures the issue of low wages. One is never sure whom to tip and how much. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15679,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15676\/revisions\/15679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}