{"id":48003,"date":"2015-01-21T19:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/scotsman_boy_5_sent_invoice_after_birthday_party_no-show\/"},"modified":"2015-01-21T19:00:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T19:00:54","slug":"scotsman_boy_5_sent_invoice_after_birthday_party_no-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48003","title":{"rendered":"(Scotsman) Boy, 5, sent invoice after birthday party no-show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It should have been a fun \u00c2\u00adoccasion \u201d\u201c a boy\u2019s birthday party at a tobogganing centre, \u00c2\u00adcomplete with tea and balloons.<\/p>\n<p>But the event has now turned into the focus of a public row between two families after the mother of the boy holding the party sent a formal invoice to the parents of his friend Alex for a \u201cparty no-show fee\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>The document, which included an invoice number, charged Tanya Walsh and Derek Nash \u00c2\u00a315.95 for the cost of their five-year-old son\u2019s non-attendance at the event, held during the Christmas holidays.<\/p>\n<p>And the Nashes are now being threatened with action at the small claims court if they refuse to pay up, while the mother of the birthday boy has banned her son from ever playing with Alex again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/odd\/boy-5-sent-invoice-after-birthday-party-no-show-1-3665422\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It should have been a fun \u00c2\u00adoccasion \u201d\u201c a boy\u2019s birthday party at a tobogganing centre, \u00c2\u00adcomplete with tea and balloons. But the event has now turned into the focus of a public row between two families after the mother<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48003\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,101,149,199,168,114,98,326,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-children","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-scotland","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}