{"id":13616,"date":"2016-01-28T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13616"},"modified":"2016-01-28T10:13:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:13:02","slug":"a-city-with-sleep-merchants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/a-city-with-sleep-merchants\/","title":{"rendered":"A City With Sleep Merchants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/012816_1511_ACityWithSl1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ellen Barry wrote about a shadowy city with ethereal sleep merchants:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New Delhi&#8217;s shelters can accommodate 18,000 people. Yet the homeless likely number more than 100,000.<\/li>\n<li>Enter sleep merchants. These people chalk out parts of the sidewalks and offer safe spaces for people to bunk.<\/li>\n<li>They pay off the police and street sweepers so that the sleepers aren&#8217;t disturbed. Pick pockets are also paid so that the only robberies abound are dreamt.<\/li>\n<li>Some are compassionate, offer blankets, and play a Bollywood movie so that clients can slowly drift into slumber.<\/li>\n<li>Others are more calculating and will more than quadruple nightly prices \u2013 to 50 Rupees ($0.73) \u2013 when a chill begins to settle in the dark.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/19\/world\/asia\/delhi-sleep-economy.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&amp;smid=nytcore-iphone-share&amp;_r=2&amp;utm_content=bufferfccf7&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen Barry wrote about a shadowy city with ethereal sleep merchants: New Delhi&#8217;s shelters can accommodate 18,000 people. Yet the homeless likely number more than 100,000. Enter sleep merchants. These people chalk out parts of the sidewalks and offer safe spaces for people to bunk. They pay off the police and street sweepers so that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13616","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\/2016\/01\/012816_1511_ACityWithSl1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13616","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=13616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13618,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13616\/revisions\/13618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}