{"id":168044,"date":"2026-05-12T04:52:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=168044"},"modified":"2026-05-12T04:52:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:52:48","slug":"rising-costs-no-barrier-to-mothers-day-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=168044","title":{"rendered":"Rising costs no barrier to Mother&#8217;s Day celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1854173_1_M_20260510133523.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>Restaurants and flower shops anticipated slower revenue on Mother&#8217;s Day due to lower customer traffic and rising costs overall.<\/p>\n<p>Still, despite the rise in fuel costs, citizens continued to buy flowers at the Flower Market in Mong Kok for their wife or mother on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Some said they spent about HK$300 on roses&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1854173-20260510.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restaurants and flower shops anticipated slower revenue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}