{"id":13276,"date":"2015-11-11T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13276"},"modified":"2015-11-11T08:32:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T13:32:17","slug":"paid-patriotism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/paid-patriotism\/","title":{"rendered":"Paid Patriotism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/111115_1330_PaidPatriot1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the United States its Veteran&#8217;s Day today. America is a fairly patriotic country but Barry Petchesky wrote that at times this patriotism can be a little artificial:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sporting events sometimes have giant American flags, the singing of the national anthem, or even the depiction of military personnel on stadium screens for a round of applause.<\/li>\n<li>It turns out that the Department of Defense actually pays for these activities.<\/li>\n<li>They reason that it&#8217;s an effective advertisement that drums up military recruitment.<\/li>\n<li>The Atlanta Falcons made close to a million dollars by agreeing to run these promos.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s been a backlash to the stealth advertizing and the defense establishment intends to stay away from them going forwards.<\/li>\n<li>The NFL, for its part, says that it intends to return all of the money it made from the patriotic displays.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/these-teams-earned-the-most-from-the-militarys-paid-pa-1740567338?trending_test_e&amp;utm_expid=66866090-62.YkETBcIMTk2uX1oytHipyg.5\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/these-teams-earned-the-most-from-the-militarys-paid-pa-1740567338?trending_test_e&amp;utm_expid=66866090-62.YkETBcIMTk2uX1oytHipyg.5\">Deadspin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the United States its Veteran&#8217;s Day today. America is a fairly patriotic country but Barry Petchesky wrote that at times this patriotism can be a little artificial: Sporting events sometimes have giant American flags, the singing of the national anthem, or even the depiction of military personnel on stadium screens for a round of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13276","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\/11\/111115_1330_PaidPatriot1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276","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=13276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13279,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276\/revisions\/13279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}