{"id":179773,"date":"2023-11-21T09:25:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T15:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=179773"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:23:46","slug":"the-dos-and-donts-of-table-manners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/leisure\/food-drink\/the-dos-and-donts-of-table-manners\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dos and Don&#8217;ts of Table Manners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-179774\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Do-Dont-Table-Manners-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Do-Dont-Table-Manners-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Do-Dont-Table-Manners-1-320x553.jpg 320w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Do-Dont-Table-Manners-1-640x1107.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, you got plenty of tutorials about table manners when you were growing up. But not everyone did. And even if you feel you&#8217;ve got the basics of dining etiquette down, it&#8217;s always good to get a refresher. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/people\/social-skills\/podcast-1070-how-to-have-the-manners-and-charm-of-a-proper-english-gentleman\/\">Manners elevate even everyday meals<\/a>, making them feel like special and set-apart occasions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.storytellersworkshop.com\"><em>Illustration by Ted Slampyak<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully, you got plenty of tutorials about table manners when you were growing up. But not everyone did. And even if you feel you&#8217;ve got the basics of dining etiquette down, it&#8217;s always good to get a refresher. Manners elevate even everyday meals, making them feel like special and set-apart occasions.&nbsp; Illustration by Ted Slampyak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,42273],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-179773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-drink","category-living"],"featured_image_urls":{"aom":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2023\/11\/table-347x230.jpg","reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2023\/11\/table-320x235.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179773"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179778,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179773\/revisions\/179778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179773"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=179773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}