{"id":1679,"date":"2012-04-05T05:23:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T10:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2012-04-05T05:23:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T10:23:15","slug":"swazi-incentives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2012\/04\/05\/swazi-incentives\/","title":{"rendered":"Swazi Incentives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the United States, it seems companies everywhere are offering chances to win a new iPad as incentive for using their services.&#160; Apparently Apple technology doesn&#8217;t have the same appeal here in Swaziland, so they have tried other schemes:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"2 cows\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2 cows\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/2cows.jpg\" width=\"396\" height=\"472\" \/>&#160; <br \/><small>[<em>Advertisement found in local magazine, although billboards of this offer are also prominent in the country.<\/em>]      <br \/><\/small><\/p>\n<p>I would love to see the logistics involved in making this promotion work.&#160; I can just imagine the fine print:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #ffffff\">Offer not available to employees of Standard Bank, their families or the cattle farmers involved in the raising or delivery of above mentioned cattle.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To put it in perspective, if a Swazi did win this promotion, they would already be 1\/7th the way towards paying lobola (dowry) for a new bride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the United States, it seems companies everywhere are offering chances to win a new iPad as incentive for using their services.&#160; Apparently Apple technology doesn&#8217;t have the same appeal here in Swaziland, so they have tried other schemes: &#160; [Advertisement found in local magazine, although billboards of this offer are also prominent in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,140],"tags":[725,726,700],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-swaziland","tag-advertisment","tag-incentives","tag-swazis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}