{"id":13079,"date":"2015-09-24T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13079"},"modified":"2015-09-25T07:54:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T11:54:56","slug":"writing-for-fortune-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/writing-for-fortune-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Fortune Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/092415_1216_WritingForF1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"478\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Olga Oksman wrote about where fortune cookie fortunes come from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The companies that make fortune cookies have massive databases with tens of thousands of fortunes that are randomly selected and printed.<\/li>\n<li>They continuously seek to expand this database by paying high schoolers and failed writers to come up with more.<\/li>\n<li>One company pays about 75 cents a fortune and requires at least 700 of them.<\/li>\n<li>The fortunes have to be bland because each of the 3 billion cookies that are consumed need to have a fortune that could apply to anybody.<\/li>\n<li>The lucky numbers that show up on fortunes are computer generated.<\/li>\n<li>People put a lot of faith in the cookies \u2013 110 people won the Powerball in 2005 because they all played the numbers they got in their fortune cookies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2015\/sep\/20\/fortune-cookie-writers-chinese-food\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2015\/sep\/20\/fortune-cookie-writers-chinese-food\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olga Oksman wrote about where fortune cookie fortunes come from: The companies that make fortune cookies have massive databases with tens of thousands of fortunes that are randomly selected and printed. They continuously seek to expand this database by paying high schoolers and failed writers to come up with more. One company pays about 75 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13079","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\/09\/092415_1216_WritingForF1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079","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=13079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13088,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079\/revisions\/13088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}