{"id":14705,"date":"2016-10-28T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14705"},"modified":"2016-10-28T01:05:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T05:05:24","slug":"the-economics-of-mermaids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/the-economics-of-mermaids\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Mermaids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/102816_0502_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"421\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Caroline Winter provided a glimpse into a day in the life of a mermaid:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s an entire industry around helping two-legged mouth breathers become mermaids.<\/li>\n<li>It has its own pun-filled terminology. To buy a tail you go to a &#8220;mertailer&#8221;. Those who book gigs are known as &#8220;entrepremermaids&#8221; and they put on &#8220;merformances&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>High end performers need custom tails that can cost as much as $5,000.<\/li>\n<li>But celebrities like Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, and Justin Timberlake like having the novelty at parties, and prices start at $1,000.<\/li>\n<li>One particularly glamorous mermaid also puts out Youtube videos that bring in several thousand a month.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not for the faint of heart. The tail is heavy, you&#8217;ll constantly have chlorine or salt in your eyes, and you have to smile underwater while holding your breath and not swallowing too much of it.<\/li>\n<li>Fortunately, you can get classes. In New York, a two-day class on how to mermaid costs $375.<\/li>\n<li>Disney is planning a live-action Little Mermaid movie. Demand is only going to go up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more, and watch the (auto-playing) video on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-10-26\/fake-mermaids-are-making-real-money\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Winter provided a glimpse into a day in the life of a mermaid: There&#8217;s an entire industry around helping two-legged mouth breathers become mermaids. It has its own pun-filled terminology. To buy a tail you go to a &#8220;mertailer&#8221;. Those who book gigs are known as &#8220;entrepremermaids&#8221; and they put on &#8220;merformances&#8221;. High end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14705","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\/10\/102816_0502_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705","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=14705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14708,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705\/revisions\/14708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}