{"id":14160,"date":"2016-06-08T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14160"},"modified":"2016-06-08T09:40:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T13:40:39","slug":"whatever-happens-to-the-money-people-toss-into-fountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/whatever-happens-to-the-money-people-toss-into-fountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Happens To The Money People Toss Into Fountains?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/060816_1336_WhateverHap1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adam Chandler investigated the fate of coins that are thrown into fountains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Usually money thrown into fountains in American parks are donated to the very charities that run the park \u2013 in effect the parks keep it for themselves.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s often very little change left for maintenance workers to collect however; entrepreneurial citizens frequently go into the fountain and collect the money before park staff can get at it.<\/li>\n<li>The Mall of America has a private fountain and the approximately $24,000 it collects is used to fund a grant that charities apply to use.<\/li>\n<li>And then there&#8217;s the Trevi Fountain in Rome. Due to a tradition that was popularized in the movie &#8220;Three Coins in the Fountain&#8221; thousands of dollars are thrown into the fountain by people around the world every day.<\/li>\n<li>Some enterprising citizens used to try to collect the money through the use of a magnetizing wand. But the shift to Euro coins \u2013 which are immune to them \u2013 foiled this plan.<\/li>\n<li>Italy uses money from the fountain to fund a supermarket for the poor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2016\/06\/coins-fountains-charity\/485300\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2016\/06\/coins-fountains-charity\/485300\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Chandler investigated the fate of coins that are thrown into fountains: Usually money thrown into fountains in American parks are donated to the very charities that run the park \u2013 in effect the parks keep it for themselves. There&#8217;s often very little change left for maintenance workers to collect however; entrepreneurial citizens frequently go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14160","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\/06\/060816_1336_WhateverHap1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160","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=14160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14163,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160\/revisions\/14163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}