{"id":9947,"date":"2013-10-24T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9947"},"modified":"2013-10-24T08:18:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T12:18:24","slug":"the-economics-of-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/102413_1216_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Janet Moore took a look at the economics of Halloween:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Halloween is an important season for retailers that bridges the gap between Christmas and back-to-school.<\/li>\n<li>Last year each person in the United States spent about $79.82 on Halloween candy, costumes and decorations.<\/li>\n<li>That is expected to fall to $75.03 this year to $6.9 billion as a result of the economy.<\/li>\n<li>$330 million is spent on costumes for pets. Trending dog costumes include hot dog, Wonder Woman, and Ewok.<\/li>\n<li>About three times as much &#8211; $1 billion \u2013 is spent on children. The top costumes for them are police, firefighter, and vampire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about those trying to sell budget Halloween costumes, how much adults spend on costumes for themselves, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/business\/228391151.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/business\/228391151.html\">StarTribune<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janet Moore took a look at the economics of Halloween: Halloween is an important season for retailers that bridges the gap between Christmas and back-to-school. Last year each person in the United States spent about $79.82 on Halloween candy, costumes and decorations. That is expected to fall to $75.03 this year to $6.9 billion as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9947","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\/10\/102413_1216_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947","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=9947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9949,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947\/revisions\/9949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}