{"id":11766,"date":"2014-11-27T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11766"},"modified":"2014-11-27T11:21:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T16:21:59","slug":"presidentially-pardoned-turkeys-are-essentially-playing-the-hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/presidentially-pardoned-turkeys-are-essentially-playing-the-hunger-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidentially Pardoned Turkeys Are Essentially Playing The Hunger Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/112714_1618_Presidentia1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If it makes you feel any better about your food today, it turns out that turkeys granted a Presidential pardon don&#8217;t have that great a life, as Zachary Crockett wrote:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The National Turkey Federation (seriously) is responsible for breeding and presenting candidates for a Presidential pardon.<\/li>\n<li>80 hatchlings are selected as potentials and are fed a high calorie diet to make them as fat as possible for the cameras.<\/li>\n<li>Of those only 20 of the largest and best-behaved make the cut.<\/li>\n<li>They then go through an intensive regime where they are trained to handle the spotlight so that they don&#8217;t panic amidst the flash photography and noisy crowds.<\/li>\n<li>Only about two make it to the next round where they are pampered. This year&#8217;s candidates got $350 a night hotel rooms covered in wood shavings.<\/li>\n<li>After being pardoned they are sent to a farm to live out the rest of their years in peace.<\/li>\n<li>It turns out though they don&#8217;t live very long. The high calorie diet means that they die early, obesity related deaths.<\/li>\n<li>Of the past eight turkeys that have been pardoned, seven died less than a year after they earned a pardon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2026Happy Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n<p>Read about how contrary to popular belief, the history of the Presidential Turkey pardon only goes back to the late 80s, how myths around the tradition got started, a list of the names of each of the turkeys pardoned, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/priceonomics.com\/the-turkey-hunger-games\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/priceonomics.com\/the-turkey-hunger-games\/\">Priceonomics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it makes you feel any better about your food today, it turns out that turkeys granted a Presidential pardon don&#8217;t have that great a life, as Zachary Crockett wrote: The National Turkey Federation (seriously) is responsible for breeding and presenting candidates for a Presidential pardon. 80 hatchlings are selected as potentials and are fed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11766","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\/11\/112714_1618_Presidentia1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11766","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=11766"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11770,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11766\/revisions\/11770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}