{"id":10565,"date":"2014-02-18T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10565"},"modified":"2014-02-17T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T23:10:08","slug":"abba-tax-evasion-and-costumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/abba-tax-evasion-and-costumes\/","title":{"rendered":"ABBA, Tax Evasion, And Costumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/021714_2306_ABBATaxEvas1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"449\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1970s pop group ABBA was known for many things including their extreme outfits. Decades later Simon Bowers uncovered the reason for the iconic style:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Swedish tax code allowed the cost of outfits to be claimed as a tax deduction\u2026as long as the outfits were too ridiculous to be worn on a typical day.<\/li>\n<li>This quirk in the code help contribute to ABBA&#8217;s style and gave a distinct personality to the group.<\/li>\n<li>Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus (extreme left) states that he felt the group &#8220;looked like nuts&#8221; and was &#8220;badly dressed&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2014\/feb\/16\/abba-outfits-tax-deduction-bjorn-ulvaeus\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2014\/feb\/16\/abba-outfits-tax-deduction-bjorn-ulvaeus\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1970s pop group ABBA was known for many things including their extreme outfits. Decades later Simon Bowers uncovered the reason for the iconic style: The Swedish tax code allowed the cost of outfits to be claimed as a tax deduction\u2026as long as the outfits were too ridiculous to be worn on a typical day. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/021714_2306_ABBATaxEvas1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10568,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565\/revisions\/10568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}