{"id":3984,"date":"2016-07-08T21:03:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T01:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2016-07-08T21:03:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T01:03:44","slug":"why-do-i-run-a-partial-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=3984","title":{"rendered":"Why Do I Run?  A Partial Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to pick up a ticket to the Hollywood Bowl while I&#8217;m in Los Angeles. Checking the seat prices online, Ticketmaster wanted a $5.50 &#8220;convenience fee&#8221; on top of the $14 back of the bowl ticket price. That&#8217;s a 39.2+% convenience fee.<\/p>\n<p>Today then I detoured my running route and added a stop at the Bowl Box Office. And instead of buying the off-to-the-side back of the bowl ticket for $14, I opted for the middle of the back of the bowl ticket for $18. That was still a $1.50 savings over the Ticketmaster &#8220;convenience fee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So why do I run? Convenience. And to put money in my pocket even when I&#8217;m spending it.<\/p>\n<p>And the show I&#8217;m seeing?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image-7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image-7-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image-7-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image-7-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image-7-830x1107.jpeg 830w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image-7-230x307.jpeg 230w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image-7-350x467.jpeg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to pick up a ticket to the Hollywood Bowl while I&#8217;m in Los Angeles. Checking the seat prices online, Ticketmaster wanted a $5.50 &#8220;convenience fee&#8221; on top of the $14 back of the bowl ticket price. That&#8217;s a 39.2+% convenience fee. Today then I detoured my running route and added a stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984","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=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}