{"id":10607,"date":"2017-03-22T18:42:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T22:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=10607"},"modified":"2017-03-22T18:46:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T22:46:11","slug":"a-five-dollar-gambling-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=10607","title":{"rendered":"A Five Dollar Gambling Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week after reading about the 11-hour cutoff for this weekend&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandcircletrails.com\/monument-valley-general-info\/\">now 55K UltraMarathon<\/a>, I ordered a hydration pack from Amazon. But it was $5 cheaper to order it from a third party vendor on their site and NOT go with Amazon Prime&#8217;s free two day shipping.\u00a0 They said it was slated for delivery between March 21st and March 23rd (inclusive&#8230; otherwise it&#8217;d be, ya know, just March 22nd as the delivery date). I&#8217;m leaving tomorrow for the Grand Canyon and I thought, &#8220;Well&#8230; I&#8217;ve got a 66.66% chance it&#8217;ll get here before I leave&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As is often the case when I gamble, ANY chance for failure usually means, yes, Virginia, there is failure afoot.<\/p>\n<p>The mail truck has come and gone.<\/p>\n<p>No hydration pack.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;ll roll the dice and just carry a bottle of water.\u00a0 That should be fine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/addtext_com_MTgzNzUzMjM3MDM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10620 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/addtext_com_MTgzNzUzMjM3MDM-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/addtext_com_MTgzNzUzMjM3MDM-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/addtext_com_MTgzNzUzMjM3MDM-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/addtext_com_MTgzNzUzMjM3MDM-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/addtext_com_MTgzNzUzMjM3MDM-830x467.jpg 830w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/addtext_com_MTgzNzUzMjM3MDM-230x129.jpg 230w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/addtext_com_MTgzNzUzMjM3MDM-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/addtext_com_MTgzNzUzMjM3MDM.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week after reading about the 11-hour cutoff for this weekend&#8217;s now 55K UltraMarathon, I ordered a hydration pack from Amazon. But it was $5 cheaper to order it from a third party vendor on their site and NOT go with Amazon Prime&#8217;s free two day shipping.\u00a0 They said it was slated for delivery between [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}