{"id":13638,"date":"2016-02-05T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13638"},"modified":"2016-02-05T11:30:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T16:30:41","slug":"the-latest-craze-in-thailand-is-haunted-dolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/the-latest-craze-in-thailand-is-haunted-dolls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Craze In Thailand Is Haunted Dolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13639\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/fc5e2f7fb74db5694ab995f671dab76a1.jpg\" alt=\"Thailand doll\" width=\"500\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/fc5e2f7fb74db5694ab995f671dab76a1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/fc5e2f7fb74db5694ab995f671dab76a1-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>The Economist had a fascinating article on a recent Thai economic trend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The dolls &#8211; or &#8220;child angels&#8221; as they are known &#8211; are blessed\u00a0with the spirit of a child and are thought to bring good luck.<\/li>\n<li>Their owners go so far as to feed and water\u00a0them, while dressing the US$110 toys in the finest clothing.<\/li>\n<li>The dolls are so popular that one airline allows fliers to purchase an extra seat so that their doll can buckle in and travel in comfort.<\/li>\n<li>At buffets the dolls can dine for the child price &#8211; although they&#8217;ll be expected to pay for any food on their plates that remains uneaten.<\/li>\n<li>Even &#8220;Disney on Ice&#8221; will offer tickets for the dolls.<\/li>\n<li>Smugglers have taken note of the trend and are using the toys to smuggle drugs.<\/li>\n<li>And there&#8217;s a bit of a backlash &#8211; the dolls are, after all, meant to be haunted with spirits. Some people don&#8217;t want to purchase tickets that could seat them next to the dolls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about why Thailand&#8217;s political turmoil helped drive this craze, and why the Prime Minister isn&#8217;t too happy about them over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/asia\/21689637-craze-haunted-dolls-starts-moral-panic-dolls-bring-luckand-drugs?frsc=dg%7Ce\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/asia\/21689637-craze-haunted-dolls-starts-moral-panic-dolls-bring-luckand-drugs?frsc=dg%7Ce\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist had a fascinating article on a recent Thai economic trend: The dolls &#8211; or &#8220;child angels&#8221; as they are known &#8211; are blessed\u00a0with the spirit of a child and are thought to bring good luck. Their owners go so far as to feed and water\u00a0them, while dressing the US$110 toys in the finest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13638","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\/02\/fc5e2f7fb74db5694ab995f671dab76a1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13638","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=13638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13641,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13638\/revisions\/13641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}