{"id":10615,"date":"2014-03-02T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10615"},"modified":"2014-03-02T11:41:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T16:41:10","slug":"the-faceless-oscar-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/the-faceless-oscar-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"The Faceless Oscar Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/030214_1638_TheFaceless1.jpg\" width=\"641\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See those unrecognizable people sitting with the elite at the Oscars? Ever wonder who they are? Julie Miller has your back:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some of them are nominees for the technical categories as well as friends and families of the celebrities.<\/li>\n<li>However the organizers also hire about 300 &#8216;seat fillers&#8217; whose sole purpose is to fill empty seats when guests go to the bar or washroom, or if there&#8217;s an unappealing seat behind technical equipment.<\/li>\n<li>To become a seat filler one must submit a passport and job application with photos of the evening wear they have purchased and will wear to the event.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s mostly those who have connections with somebody at the Oscars who get the position.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike the <em>real <\/em>guests, seat fillers have to show up for the evening ceremony at 9 am.<\/li>\n<li>Seat fillers aren&#8217;t allowed to talk to any of the stars, and aren&#8217;t allowed to use the open bar.<\/li>\n<li>If the camera happens to pan to them then seat fillers must be stoic and there must be no indication that the stars surrounding them don&#8217;t know them.<\/li>\n<li>The 14 hour experience is considered volunteer work and thus is unpaid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the experience of one fake guest, why some seat fillers can be abusive, and how the rules are bent over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/vf-hollywood\/oscars-seat-filler-interview\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/vf-hollywood\/oscars-seat-filler-interview\">Vanity Fair<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See those unrecognizable people sitting with the elite at the Oscars? Ever wonder who they are? Julie Miller has your back: Some of them are nominees for the technical categories as well as friends and families of the celebrities. However the organizers also hire about 300 &#8216;seat fillers&#8217; whose sole purpose is to fill empty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/030214_1638_TheFaceless1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10618,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10615\/revisions\/10618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}