{"id":14710,"date":"2016-10-30T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14710"},"modified":"2016-10-30T11:18:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T15:18:52","slug":"companies-with-secret-monopolies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/companies-with-secret-monopolies\/","title":{"rendered":"Companies With Secret Monopolies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/103016_1516_CompaniesWi1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"433\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The writers at Cracked compiled a list of companies that dominate eccentric product categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The striped white blankets that most American babies are swaddled in soon after they&#8217;re born at a hospital, are all made by an Illinois company.<\/li>\n<li>Since the 1850s a single shoemaker has made the shoes worn by American Presidents. For Obama they re-issued the shoes worn by Abraham Lincoln.<\/li>\n<li>A business in Queens, New York, makes 4 million fortune cookies a day \u2013 singlehandedly supplying most of America&#8217;s fortune cookie market.<\/li>\n<li>A Rhode Island Company has cornered the market on making &#8220;Body of Christ Wafers&#8221; for churches.<\/li>\n<li>The religious food-maker&#8217;s wares are appreciated because the holy wafers don&#8217;t create crumbs, which would inevitably end up on the Church floor, and ignominiously be swept away.<\/li>\n<li>The company is responsive to shifts in market demands, and is exploring the creation of a gluten-free version of the wafer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full list, replete with some clever jokes, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/5-common-products-you-didnt-know-were-basically-monopolies\/\">Cracked<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The writers at Cracked compiled a list of companies that dominate eccentric product categories: The striped white blankets that most American babies are swaddled in soon after they&#8217;re born at a hospital, are all made by an Illinois company. Since the 1850s a single shoemaker has made the shoes worn by American Presidents. For Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14710","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\/103016_1516_CompaniesWi1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710","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=14710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14713,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710\/revisions\/14713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}