{"id":79698,"date":"2019-02-11T02:21:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T01:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/02\/11\/japanese-women-push-back-against-valentines-tradition-of-obligation-chocolate\/"},"modified":"2019-02-11T02:21:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T01:21:49","slug":"japanese-women-push-back-against-valentines-tradition-of-obligation-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=79698","title":{"rendered":"Japanese women push back against Valentine&#039;s tradition of &#039;obligation chocolate&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many, pressure to avoid causing offence by spending thousands of yen on treats for coworkers is becoming intolerableJapanese women are pushing back against a tradition the dictates they must give chocolates to male colleagues on Valentine\u2019s Day, with growing anger at the practice of \u201cforced giving\u201d.Until recently, women in the workplace were expected to buy chocolates for their male workmates as part of a tradition called giri choco \u2013 literally, obligation chocolates. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/feb\/11\/japanese-women-push-back-against-valentines-tradition-of-obligation-chocolate\" target=\"_blank\">Japanese women push back against Valentine&#039;s tradition of &#039;obligation chocolate&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many, pressure to avoid causing offence by spending thousands of yen on treats for coworkers is becoming intolerableJapanese women are pushing back against a tradition the dictates they must give chocolates to male colleagues on Valentine\u2019s Day, with growing anger at the practice of \u201cforced giving\u201d.Until recently, women in [&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-79698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79698","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=79698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}