{"id":12756,"date":"2015-07-11T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12756"},"modified":"2015-07-11T11:55:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T15:55:57","slug":"a-cat-that-earned-8-million-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/a-cat-that-earned-8-million-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cat That Earned 8 Million Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/071115_1552_ACatThatEar1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A cat got an obituary in The Economist. Once you read her achievements, you&#8217;ll kinda sorta agree with the decision:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tama-chan (&#8220;Little Treasure&#8221;) was a calico cat \u2013 a type particularly popular in Japan.<\/li>\n<li>She soon moved to a small train station that was losing $4 million a year. As there was no money to hire employees the cat was appointed the stationmaster.<\/li>\n<li>She wore the specially made hat she got, and the stationmaster&#8217;s badge with pride. Over the years as she became more successful she even got her own office.<\/li>\n<li>She earned her keep by rubbing against passengers&#8217; legs. Her fame spread and soon traffic to the station massively increased as people stopped by to be blessed by her.<\/li>\n<li>All in all she is thought to have earned $8 million (at today&#8217;s exchange rate) for the local economy.<\/li>\n<li>As an employee of a Japanese company her rank rose as she aged, and she was the first female operating officer to be recognized at her company.<\/li>\n<li>She ended as a Vice President within the company. Her funeral was held at the station and was attended by thousands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about Tama-chan&#8217;s approach to life, her deification, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/obituary\/21656623-tama-stationmaster-kishi-station-and-vice-president-wakayama-electric-railway-died\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/obituary\/21656623-tama-stationmaster-kishi-station-and-vice-president-wakayama-electric-railway-died\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cat got an obituary in The Economist. Once you read her achievements, you&#8217;ll kinda sorta agree with the decision: Tama-chan (&#8220;Little Treasure&#8221;) was a calico cat \u2013 a type particularly popular in Japan. She soon moved to a small train station that was losing $4 million a year. As there was no money to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12756","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\/2015\/07\/071115_1552_ACatThatEar1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756","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=12756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12759,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756\/revisions\/12759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}