{"id":8042,"date":"2013-02-14T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8042"},"modified":"2013-02-14T08:58:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T13:58:56","slug":"the-economics-of-true-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-true-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of True Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/021413_1356_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RateSupermarket looked at the price of finding somebody, courting them, and then marrying them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A year of dating, and then a year-long engagement is assumed.<\/li>\n<li>The first year of dating is estimated to cost almost $7,000. The second year costs $10,000. This includes the cost of movie tickets, beach vacations, and &#8216;apology flowers&#8217;. Arranged marriages never seemed more appealing.<\/li>\n<li>The wedding itself will cost you another $27,000.<\/li>\n<li>All in all the complete price tag for true love comes out to $43,842.08.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Centives, for one, thinks that investing that money into an Xbox with a host of assorted games will ultimately be more fulfilling. At least that&#8217;s what we tell ourselves as we prepare to order take-out. Check out the entire infographic over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratesupermarket.ca\/what_is_the_cost_of_love\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratesupermarket.ca\/what_is_the_cost_of_love\/\">RateSupermarket<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2013\/02\/tanstaafl.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/globe-investor\/personal-finance\/home-cents\/from-the-first-date-to-i-do-love-now-costs-4384208\/article8299819\/\">The Globe and Mail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RateSupermarket looked at the price of finding somebody, courting them, and then marrying them: A year of dating, and then a year-long engagement is assumed. The first year of dating is estimated to cost almost $7,000. The second year costs $10,000. This includes the cost of movie tickets, beach vacations, and &#8216;apology flowers&#8217;. Arranged marriages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/021413_1356_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8044,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions\/8044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}