{"id":11876,"date":"2014-12-21T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11876"},"modified":"2014-12-21T12:32:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T17:32:56","slug":"and-the-crowds-go-wild-in-qatari-stadiums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/and-the-crowds-go-wild-in-qatari-stadiums\/","title":{"rendered":"And The Crowds Go Wild In Qatari Stadiums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/122114_1729_AndTheCrowd1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p>John Leicester wrote about how Qatar manages to keep its stadiums full:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Qatar has a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qatar\">population of 1.8 million<\/a>. Of those only about 300,000 are Qatari citizens. The rest are temporary workers.<\/li>\n<li>Volleyball, handball, and football matches are played in front of full stadiums as workers are offered $8 to pretend to be a fan.<\/li>\n<li>Given the amount of time a match takes this comes out to less than $1 an hour.<\/li>\n<li>Some even dress up in white robes and headscarves to look like proper Qatari citizens.<\/li>\n<li>While the crowds look good for television, they&#8217;re actually keeping real fans from going to the stadium. Two thirds of a survey&#8217;s respondents said that paid fans are the reason why real fans don&#8217;t go to matches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the practice <a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/8c1c6f18ee7f4caaa6dec1f675e2db6f\/qatar-migrant-workers-paid-be-sports-fans\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/8c1c6f18ee7f4caaa6dec1f675e2db6f\/qatar-migrant-workers-paid-be-sports-fans\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2014\/12\/assorted-links-1319.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2014\/12\/18\/qatar_migrant_worker_fans_sports_events_spectators_are_often_paid.html?wpsrc=fol_tw\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Leicester wrote about how Qatar manages to keep its stadiums full: Qatar has a population of 1.8 million. Of those only about 300,000 are Qatari citizens. The rest are temporary workers. Volleyball, handball, and football matches are played in front of full stadiums as workers are offered $8 to pretend to be a fan. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11876","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\/12\/122114_1729_AndTheCrowd1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876","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=11876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11879,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876\/revisions\/11879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}