{"id":7246,"date":"2012-12-19T12:40:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T17:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=7246"},"modified":"2012-12-19T12:41:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T17:41:55","slug":"indian-butlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/indian-butlers\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Butlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/121912_1523_IndianButle1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Indian butlers are the latest trend in imports to the United States writes Jesse McKinley:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>The Pierre hotel on New York&#8217;s Fifth Avenue has launched a royal attach\u00e9 service for guests at the hotel&#8217;s 11 Grand Suites.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>These suites can cost up to $20,000 a night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The royal attach\u00e9s are butlers trained in India where such luxurious treatment is standard fare at high-class hotels.<\/li>\n<li>The butlers are proficient in various subjects including in-room dining, international customs, fixing shoelaces, drawing baths, cleaning carpets, fixing remotes, and &#8220;power dressing&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>They also have keen observation skills so that they can anticipate &#8220;unspoken wishes&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The three that have come to the States were selected from a pool of thousands of other candidates. They underwent six months of additional training to prepare for the American market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the butlers, the services they offer, why it&#8217;s not possible to have a request that is too bizarre, and what they would wish for if somebody was waiting on them, over <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/16\/travel\/where-an-attache-comes-with-the-room.html?_r=3&amp;\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/16\/travel\/where-an-attache-comes-with-the-room.html?_r=1&amp;\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/12\/on-the-theology-of-indian-hotel-butlers.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian butlers are the latest trend in imports to the United States writes Jesse McKinley: The Pierre hotel on New York&#8217;s Fifth Avenue has launched a royal attach\u00e9 service for guests at the hotel&#8217;s 11 Grand Suites. These suites can cost up to $20,000 a night. The royal attach\u00e9s are butlers trained in India where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7246","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\/2012\/12\/121912_1523_IndianButle1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246","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=7246"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7249,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246\/revisions\/7249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}