{"id":14841,"date":"2016-12-02T08:25:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T13:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14841"},"modified":"2016-12-02T08:25:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T13:25:16","slug":"cuba-has-government-sponsored-clowns-to-keep-the-masses-entertained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/cuba-has-government-sponsored-clowns-to-keep-the-masses-entertained\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Has Government Sponsored Clowns To Keep The Masses Entertained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/120216_1323_CubaHasGove1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"510\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cubans clown around, wrote The Economist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the 1970s the late Fidel Castro rounded up some clowns from the Soviet Union and launched the National School of Circus.<\/li>\n<li>While it originally featured a full circus complete with animals, economic hardship meant that soon it was composed almost entirely of clowns. It is, the government reasoned, easier to feed a clown than a lion.<\/li>\n<li>The clowns are on the payroll of the ministry of culture, earning about $30 a month, and are meant to bring entertainment to the masses.<\/li>\n<li>A nascent economic liberalization means that private sector clowns are now able to compete with government ones. But liberalization has only gone so far \u2013 with no clown nose or floppy shoe imports, Cubans entrepreneurs have to ask friends to bring them from abroad.<\/li>\n<li>The government clowns feel their private sector counterparts are amateurs and aren&#8217;t happy about the competition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/americas\/21709077-theres-money-be-made-wearing-floppy-shoes-red-nosed-gold-rush?fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fte%2Fpe%2Fed%2Ftherednosedgoldrush\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cubans clown around, wrote The Economist: In the 1970s the late Fidel Castro rounded up some clowns from the Soviet Union and launched the National School of Circus. While it originally featured a full circus complete with animals, economic hardship meant that soon it was composed almost entirely of clowns. It is, the government reasoned, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14841","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\/2016\/12\/120216_1323_CubaHasGove1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14841","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=14841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14843,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14841\/revisions\/14843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}