{"id":95547,"date":"2025-06-12T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=95547"},"modified":"2025-06-12T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:00:00","slug":"commentary-why-we-still-need-proposals-even-after-weve-booked-the-bto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=95547","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: Why we still need proposals even after we\u2019ve booked the BTO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a hyper-efficient country, we still make the effort for romance, says communications strategist Nicole Chan \u2013 perhaps not in spite of bureaucracy, but because of it.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/commentary\/wedding-engagement-proposal-marriage-housing-bto-singaporean-couples-5167171\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a hyper-efficient country, we still make the effort for romance, says communications strategist Nicole Chan \u2013 perhaps not in spite of bureaucracy, but because of it.Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-95547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sgnews","tag-cna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}