{"id":95505,"date":"2024-12-23T17:28:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T17:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/23\/im-a-middle-class-mother-of-4-i-start-a-holiday-budget-early-and-do-a-lot-of-research-before-buying-presents-2\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T17:28:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T17:28:50","slug":"im-a-middle-class-mother-of-4-i-start-a-holiday-budget-early-and-do-a-lot-of-research-before-buying-presents-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/23\/im-a-middle-class-mother-of-4-i-start-a-holiday-budget-early-and-do-a-lot-of-research-before-buying-presents-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a middle-class mother of 4. I start a holiday budget early and do a lot of research before buying presents."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The author (not pictured) makes a budget ahead of time when shopping for her kids.Daniel Balakov\/Getty Images<br \/>\nMy first Christmas as a mom, I spent $150 on gifts for our almost 1-year-old. <a href='https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/make-holiday-magic-as-middle-class-mom-of-four-2024-12' target='_blank'>read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author (not pictured) makes a budget ahead of time when shopping for her kids.Daniel Balakov\/Getty Images My first Christmas as a mom, I spent $150 on gifts for our almost 1-year-old. read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":95506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_thumbnail_id":["95506"],"_thumbnail_ext_url":["https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6740e756ede4eeae39291df2?width=1200&format=jpeg"],"post_views_count":["55"],"_jetpack_related_posts_cache":["a:1:{s:32:\"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb\";a:2:{s:7:\"expires\";i:1745728301;s:7:\"payload\";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:33772;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:34471;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:5485;}}}}"]},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-95505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-money"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paydonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/news-250x250-1-140.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95507,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95505\/revisions\/95507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}