{"id":9972,"date":"2013-10-29T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9972"},"modified":"2013-10-29T08:04:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T12:04:29","slug":"the-economics-of-adult-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-adult-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Adult Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/102913_1202_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jason Notte wrote that Halloween is no longer a children&#8217;s event \u2013 something that, by now, must be clear to most people in the United States:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$1.2 billion is spent on adult Halloween costumes \u2013 more than the $1.0 billion that is spent on children&#8217;s costumes.<\/li>\n<li>43% of adults plan to dress up in 2013 \u2013 up from 34% in 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Seasonal Halloween themed beer sales jump during the season \u2013 making Halloween second only to New Year&#8217;s Day and the Super Bowl in terms of sales bumps.<\/li>\n<li>Hollywood has long known the power of adult spending at Halloween. R rated horror movies generate substantial revenues during the season.<\/li>\n<li>Adult Halloween parties include Key West&#8217;s Fantasy Fest which brings together 70,000 costumed partiers hosted by porn stars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about why children, on the other hand, have been increasingly unable to enjoy Halloween, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/story\/12076887\/1\/5-reasons-halloween-isnt-for-kids-anymore.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/story\/12076887\/1\/5-reasons-halloween-isnt-for-kids-anymore.html\">The Street<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Notte wrote that Halloween is no longer a children&#8217;s event \u2013 something that, by now, must be clear to most people in the United States: $1.2 billion is spent on adult Halloween costumes \u2013 more than the $1.0 billion that is spent on children&#8217;s costumes. 43% of adults plan to dress up in 2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9972","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\/2013\/10\/102913_1202_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972","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=9972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9975,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions\/9975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}