{"id":149,"date":"2004-04-02T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-02T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmayhaps.wordpress.com\/2004\/04\/02\/the-secret-to-winning"},"modified":"2004-04-02T01:06:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-02T01:06:00","slug":"the-secret-to-winning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/02\/the-secret-to-winning-2\/","title":{"rendered":"the secret to winning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nOn Monday morning, while preoccupied with other events, I tossed a Tim Horton&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/timhortons.com\/english\/english.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"bloglink\"><br \/>\nRRRoll up the Rim to Win<\/a> cup into my trash without even checking to see if it was a winner. Later that day I thought about it and reminded myself to get it out and check it when I got home. Over the course of the next few days, as we drove by countless Tim Horton&#8217;s franchises, I kept thinking &#8220;I must remember to check the cup when I get home&#8221; (The garbage had just been emptied that morning, so the cup was pretty much the only contents and was therefore a candidate for retrieval). Last night when I <i>finally<\/i> got home &#8230; I promptly forgot to fish out the cup. This morning &#8230; I forgot to check the cup. Tonight &#8230; I forgot about the cup until just after my hand let go of the garbage I was tossing into the trash. Thankfully it was just a plastic wrapper and the cup was spared a gory, icky death.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd I won a donut.<sup>1<\/sup>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"footnote\">\n<sup>1<\/sup>This brings my statistics up to 2 in 20. Slightly less than the 1 in 9 average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday morning, while preoccupied with other events, I tossed a Tim Horton&#8217;s RRRoll up the Rim to Win cup into my trash without even checking to see if it was a winner. Later that day I thought about it and reminded myself to get it out and check it when I got home. Over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vfXi-2p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}