{"id":13763,"date":"2016-03-08T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13763"},"modified":"2016-03-08T11:05:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:05:23","slug":"some-of-the-crowds-at-political-rallies-might-be-paid-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/some-of-the-crowds-at-political-rallies-might-be-paid-actors\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Of The Crowds At Political Rallies Might Be Paid Actors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/030816_1547_SomeOfTheCr1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Marin Austin wrote about a company that provides concerned citizens on demand:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Crowds on Demand&#8221; is a company that provides crowds for political events.<\/li>\n<li>The owner of the company says he has 20,000 actors who can show up and cheer on a candidate.<\/li>\n<li>The actors are paid between $50 and $100 for a few hours&#8217; work.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes the actors will also be prepped with fake biographies which they use when asking the candidates scripted questions.<\/li>\n<li>The company claims that some 2016 Presidential Candidates have hired the company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/Concerned-Citizens-Turn-Out-to-Be-Political-Theater-369230811.html\">here<\/a> (auto-video player warning). And read Centives&#8217; 2016 election coverage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/tag\/american-elections-2016\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/Concerned-Citizens-Turn-Out-to-Be-Political-Theater-369230811.html\">NBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marin Austin wrote about a company that provides concerned citizens on demand: &#8220;Crowds on Demand&#8221; is a company that provides crowds for political events. The owner of the company says he has 20,000 actors who can show up and cheer on a candidate. The actors are paid between $50 and $100 for a few hours&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-13763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","tag-american-elections-2016"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/030816_1547_SomeOfTheCr1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763","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=13763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13766,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763\/revisions\/13766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}