{"id":12427,"date":"2015-04-24T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12427"},"modified":"2015-04-24T00:35:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T04:35:35","slug":"funeral-strippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/funeral-strippers\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral Strippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/042415_0433_FuneralStri1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"664\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In some parts of China, strippers are called to perform at funerals wrote Te-Ping Chen and Josh Chin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The presence of strippers draws large crowds which is thought to bring good fortune into the after-life of the deceased.<\/li>\n<li>The services cost $322 a session, and companies may put on up to 20 shows a month.<\/li>\n<li>The practice isn&#8217;t limited to the mainland \u2013 women in short skirts and stilettos sometimes perform at Taiwanese funerals.<\/li>\n<li>The Chinese government is trying to crack down on the practice, calling it &#8220;obscene&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/chinarealtime\/2015\/04\/23\/chinese-government-says-please-stop-hiring-funeral-strippers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/chinarealtime\/2015\/04\/23\/chinese-government-says-please-stop-hiring-funeral-strippers\/\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In some parts of China, strippers are called to perform at funerals wrote Te-Ping Chen and Josh Chin: The presence of strippers draws large crowds which is thought to bring good fortune into the after-life of the deceased. The services cost $322 a session, and companies may put on up to 20 shows a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12427","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\/04\/042415_0433_FuneralStri1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12427","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=12427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12430,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12427\/revisions\/12430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}