{"id":9952,"date":"2013-10-26T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9952"},"modified":"2013-10-26T02:33:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T06:33:51","slug":"the-economics-of-haunted-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-haunted-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Haunted Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/102613_0604_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"527\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a typical pun-filled article The Economist took a look at haunted houses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are about 2,000 haunted houses in America \u2013 they generate revenues of about $1 billion.<\/li>\n<li>158 million Americans will celebrate Halloween this year and a fifth will visit haunted houses.<\/li>\n<li>Most aren&#8217;t profitable. They&#8217;re only open during Halloween season and the increasing use of technology has substantially raised costs.<\/li>\n<li>However the biggest cost remains the actors stashed around the house.<\/li>\n<li>People see going to a haunted house as one step above a horror movie \u2013 this way they themselves get to be in the scene.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find out other reasons why haunted houses are unprofitable, some of the more notable ones, and a picture of The Economist&#8217;s DC correspondent \u2013 a rare thing for the secretive newspaper to identify. Also the puns. Oh the puns. It&#8217;s all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/united-states\/21588387-scaring-americans-has-become-big-business-more-boo-your-buck\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/united-states\/21588387-scaring-americans-has-become-big-business-more-boo-your-buck\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a typical pun-filled article The Economist took a look at haunted houses: There are about 2,000 haunted houses in America \u2013 they generate revenues of about $1 billion. 158 million Americans will celebrate Halloween this year and a fifth will visit haunted houses. Most aren&#8217;t profitable. They&#8217;re only open during Halloween season and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9952","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\/102613_0604_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952","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=9952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9960,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952\/revisions\/9960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}