{"id":1111,"date":"2001-08-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-08-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/08\/17\/2001-08-17-wives-rewarded-when-husbands-abstain-from-drinking-alcohol-and-smoking\/"},"modified":"2001-08-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-08-17T12:00:00","slug":"2001-08-17-wives-rewarded-when-husbands-abstain-from-drinking-alcohol-and-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/08\/17\/2001-08-17-wives-rewarded-when-husbands-abstain-from-drinking-alcohol-and-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"Wives Rewarded When Husbands Abstain from Drinking Alcohol and Smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/world\/south_asia\/newsid_1489000\/1489019.stm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA, August 13, 2001: A clever tactic has been adopted by the boss of a chemical company in the state of Andhra Pradesh. To discourage smoking and drinking alcohol, the company pays the wife of a male employee a bonus of ten dollars a month when her husband abstains from the two habits. According to Mr. Venkatesh, &#8220;99% of his 1200 employees stick to the regime.&#8221; Even though the program costs the company US$150,000 a year, the results have encouraged employees to be faithful and disciplined.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA, August 13, 2001: A clever tactic has been adopted by the boss of a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}