{"id":13390,"date":"2015-12-09T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13390"},"modified":"2015-12-09T08:16:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T13:16:30","slug":"santas-elves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/santas-elves\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa\u2019s Elves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120915_1312_SantasElves1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is the holiday season and department stores across the United States are filled with Christmas cheer. Jessica Leigh Hester wrote about the temps that Santa brings on to work as elves:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A large number of the elves you see at department stores are actors in between jobs.<\/li>\n<li>Many of them have improv skills that serve them well when interacting with children.<\/li>\n<li>As elves one of their primary responsibilities is to serendipitously learn the children&#8217;s names and to covertly inform Santa so that he can surprise the star-struck children when he greets them.<\/li>\n<li>When parents get upset \u2013 over the length of the line to see Santa, or the way that Santa is dressed &#8211; it is also the job of the elves to be the face that they yell at, sparing Santa embarrassment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the life of a department store elf over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/12\/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-department-store-elf\/419274\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/12\/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-department-store-elf\/419274\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the holiday season and department stores across the United States are filled with Christmas cheer. Jessica Leigh Hester wrote about the temps that Santa brings on to work as elves: A large number of the elves you see at department stores are actors in between jobs. Many of them have improv skills that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13390","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\/12\/120915_1312_SantasElves1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13390","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=13390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13392,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13390\/revisions\/13392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}