{"id":11466,"date":"2014-09-15T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11466"},"modified":"2014-09-14T22:20:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T02:20:32","slug":"austerity-chinese-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/austerity-chinese-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Austerity Chinese Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/091314_1916_AusterityCh1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government has recently been on a crusade against public officials claiming extravagant expenses. This hasn&#8217;t worked out as well as the government would have liked writes The Economist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As a result of the effort domestic airline carriers have seen a sharp fall in profits as politicians no longer fly in first class.<\/li>\n<li>To get around this China Southern Airlines has relabeled its first class seats as business class without making any other changes.<\/li>\n<li>This should make it more palatable to bean counters who will now see &#8216;business&#8217; rather than &#8216;first&#8217; next to flight ticket expenses.<\/li>\n<li>Similarly hotels have requested to be downgraded from &#8220;five-star&#8221; status so that government officials continue to visit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the government&#8217;s efforts, its unintended consequences, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/gulliver\/2014\/09\/china-s-anti-corruption-drive?fsrc=rss\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/gulliver\/2014\/09\/china-s-anti-corruption-drive?fsrc=rss\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese government has recently been on a crusade against public officials claiming extravagant expenses. This hasn&#8217;t worked out as well as the government would have liked writes The Economist: As a result of the effort domestic airline carriers have seen a sharp fall in profits as politicians no longer fly in first class. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11466","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\/09\/091314_1916_AusterityCh1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466","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=11466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11468,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466\/revisions\/11468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}