{"id":1050,"date":"2012-02-20T01:34:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T06:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2012-02-06T09:48:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T14:48:38","slug":"gifts-vs-contracts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2012\/02\/gifts-vs-contracts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifts vs Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>There is a difference between a gift and a contract. I have met many people who fail to notice that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persons give other persons gifts. Many of these gifts are not gifts &#8211; they are contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few signs that gifts are contracts. In contracts, the giver says something like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m giving this to you if&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m giving this to you so you can&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>This gift is for&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Contracts have conditions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the receiver does not follow the conditions, the giver is angry or something like that. If you give something to a person and are upset with what they do, you didn&#8217;t give a gift. Instead, you had a contract.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gifts are unconditional.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here is some money. (Do with it what you want)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The words in parentheses are usually not said. The giver has no regrets regardless of what the receiver does.<\/p>\n<p>There is a difference between giving something with conditions and giving something unconditionally. If you have conditions, state them. If the receiver cannot live with the conditions, don&#8217;t give.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips There is a difference between a gift and a contract. I have met many people who fail to notice that. Persons give other persons gifts. Many of these gifts are not gifts &#8211; they are contracts. Here are a few signs that gifts are contracts. In contracts, the giver says something like: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[206],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greed","tag-greed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}