{"id":12205,"date":"2015-03-06T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12205"},"modified":"2015-03-06T08:11:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T13:11:39","slug":"funny-origin-stories-of-famous-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/funny-origin-stories-of-famous-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny Origin Stories Of Famous Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/030615_1309_FunnyOrigin1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"753\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cracked took a look at some unexpected origin stories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cosmopolitan magazine started off as a conservative magazine aimed at families. Editor Helen Brown turned it into the sexually liberal publication that we all know today in the 60s.<\/li>\n<li>Shell, the oil company, got its start literally selling decorative sea shells.<\/li>\n<li>The Secret Service \u2013 the agency currently charged with protecting the President of the United States \u2013 was created to fight counterfeit money. A host of assassinations convinced the government that they needed them to protect the President instead.<\/li>\n<li>The stock market got its start in coffee houses, which were popular gathering places for rich businessmen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read other origin stories, and more history behind each of them, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_21984_5-powerful-organizations-that-started-stupid-reasons_p2.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_21984_5-powerful-organizations-that-started-stupid-reasons_p2.html\">Cracked<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cracked took a look at some unexpected origin stories: Cosmopolitan magazine started off as a conservative magazine aimed at families. Editor Helen Brown turned it into the sexually liberal publication that we all know today in the 60s. Shell, the oil company, got its start literally selling decorative sea shells. The Secret Service \u2013 the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12205","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\/2015\/03\/030615_1309_FunnyOrigin1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12205","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=12205"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12211,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12205\/revisions\/12211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}