{"id":11751,"date":"2014-11-24T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11751"},"modified":"2014-11-24T10:45:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T15:45:46","slug":"innovative-french-fiscal-stimulus-measures-christmas-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/innovative-french-fiscal-stimulus-measures-christmas-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovative French Fiscal Stimulus Measures: Christmas Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/112414_1517_InnovativeF1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"457\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With French economic policy in disarray, local leaders are doing what they can writes Jason Karaian:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In an annual tradition, the mayor of Paris lights the city&#8217;s Christmas lights to signal the start of the holiday season.<\/li>\n<li>This year the lights are being lit earlier than usual in the hopes that it will put shoppers in a high spending festive mood, thus providing an economic boost.<\/li>\n<li>In an indication of just how desperate times are in France, the last time that the lights were turned on this early was during the depths of the financial crisis in 2008.<\/li>\n<li>The mayor&#8217;s office, for its part, suggests that the lights are being turned on earlier than usual merely due to other scheduling conflicts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/300793\/desperate-for-an-economic-boost-paris-turned-on-its-christmas-lights-earlier-than-usual-this-year\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/300793\/desperate-for-an-economic-boost-paris-turned-on-its-christmas-lights-earlier-than-usual-this-year\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With French economic policy in disarray, local leaders are doing what they can writes Jason Karaian: In an annual tradition, the mayor of Paris lights the city&#8217;s Christmas lights to signal the start of the holiday season. This year the lights are being lit earlier than usual in the hopes that it will put shoppers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11751","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\/11\/112414_1517_InnovativeF1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11751","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=11751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11754,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11751\/revisions\/11754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}