{"id":455,"date":"2015-09-21T21:55:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T21:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/?p=455"},"modified":"2015-09-21T21:55:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T21:55:14","slug":"manhattan-moms-cheat-at-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/21\/manhattan-moms-cheat-at-disney\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Moms Cheat at Disney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body>Here is another entry for our disheartening survey of human malfeasance called \u201creflections of the fall\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, The <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/05\/14\/rich-manhattan-moms-hire-handicapped-tour-guides-so-kids-can-cut-lines-at-disney-world\/\">New York Post<\/a> broke this story:<\/p>\n<p><em>Some wealthy Manhattan moms have figured out a way to cut the long lines at Disney World \u2014 by hiring disabled people to pose as family members so they and their kids can jump to the front, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cblack-market Disney guides\u201d run $130 an hour, or $1,040 for an eight-hour day.<br \/>\n\u201cMy daughter waited one minute to get on \u2018It\u2019s a Small World\u2019 \u2014 the other kids had to wait 2 1\/2 hours,\u201d crowed one mom, who hired a disabled guide through Dream Tours Florida.<br \/>\n\u201cYou can\u2019t go to Disney without a tour concierge,\u2019\u2019 she sniffed. \u201cThis is how the 1 percent does Disney.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Follow up stories included an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/video\/#!\/on-air\/as-seen-on\/Disabled-Tour-Guides-Cheat-Disneyland-Parkgoers\/209824321\">NBC undercover investigation<\/a>.  In response, Disney shut down the program.<br \/>\n<\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another entry for our disheartening survey of human malfeasance called \u201creflections of the fall\u201d: In 2013, The New York Post broke this story: Some wealthy Manhattan moms have figured out a way to cut the long lines at Disney World \u2014 by hiring disabled people to pose as family members so they and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[251,250,49],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-of-the-fall","tag-black-market","tag-disabled-guides-at-disney","tag-fraud"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}