{"id":8824,"date":"2013-05-17T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8824"},"modified":"2013-05-17T07:48:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T11:48:13","slug":"the-decline-of-the-indian-circus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-decline-of-the-indian-circus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decline Of The Indian Circus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/051713_1143_TheDeclineO1.png\" width=\"634\" height=\"442\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Circuses in India may be dead within the decade writes Kay Johnson:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the 1990s India had 300 circuses. Today there are around 30.<\/li>\n<li>The decline is part of a wider trend across the world \u2013 people have found alternate sources of entertainment that have caused circus revenues to fall.<\/li>\n<li>But the decline is particularly steep in India where the Supreme Court has banned the use of wild animals and child performers.<\/li>\n<li>Since many circus skills have to be taught at a young age, the ban against child performers will make it more difficult to train future entertainers.<\/li>\n<li>Cities have also become more congested and circuses have to set up their tents further and further away from city centers \u2013 causing a decline in audience buzz.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the 150 year history of Indian circuses, what circus owners have to say, and the stories of various circus performers over <a href=\"http:\/\/india.nydailynews.com\/newsarticle\/961a363580467989b2af1fe9b6bf4286\/indian-circuses-struggle-to-adapt-after-court-bans\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/india.nydailynews.com\/newsarticle\/961a363580467989b2af1fe9b6bf4286\/indian-circuses-struggle-to-adapt-after-court-bans\">Daily News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circuses in India may be dead within the decade writes Kay Johnson: In the 1990s India had 300 circuses. Today there are around 30. The decline is part of a wider trend across the world \u2013 people have found alternate sources of entertainment that have caused circus revenues to fall. But the decline is particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8824","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\/2013\/05\/051713_1143_TheDeclineO1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8824","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=8824"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8830,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8824\/revisions\/8830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}