{"id":57083,"date":"2018-09-05T15:43:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T13:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/09\/05\/the-hidden-horrifying-costs-of-being-single-emily-hill\/"},"modified":"2018-09-05T15:43:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T13:43:26","slug":"the-hidden-horrifying-costs-of-being-single-emily-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=57083","title":{"rendered":"The hidden, horrifying costs of being single | Emily Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From council tax to gym membership and from rail travel to milk cartons: why are we penalised for not being in a couple?Ordinarily, we like to scare the bejesus out of our youth, in the hope they\u2019ll turn out even more boring and compliant than we are. (\u201cSex\u2019ll give you gonorrhoea. Drugs\u2019ll kill you. Rock\u2019n\u2019roll died with Amy Winehouse \u2013 here\u2019s Ed Sheeran!\u201d) And there\u2019s another kind of aberrant behaviour that society wants to prevent. Kids be warned \u2013 we\u2019ve made singledom appallingly expensive!According to research carried out by the Good Housekeeping Institute, \u201cbeing single carries a price penalty of at least \u00a32,000 a year per individual\u201d. Totting up the figures, I beg to differ. That is a conservative estimate. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/sep\/05\/hidden-costs-being-single\" target=\"_blank\">The hidden, horrifying costs of being single | Emily Hill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From council tax to gym membership and from rail travel to milk cartons: why are we penalised for not being in a couple?Ordinarily, we like to scare the bejesus out of our youth, in the hope they\u2019ll turn out even more boring and compliant than we are. (\u201cSex\u2019ll give you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}