{"id":15653,"date":"2017-09-05T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15653"},"modified":"2017-09-05T07:13:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T11:13:41","slug":"why-rich-people-are-into-endurance-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/why-rich-people-are-into-endurance-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Rich People Are Into Endurance Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/090517_1110_WhyRichPeop1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brad Sulberg examined the proclivity of the rich for endurance sports:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The median triathlete has a white-collar job and earns $126,000 a year.<\/li>\n<li>65% of runners make more than $75,000 a year and have an undergraduate degree.<\/li>\n<li>The rich have an affinity for endurance sports because they can afford the time and money it requires.<\/li>\n<li>An hour a day training adds up more than half a month over the course of the year \u2013 time difficult to sacrifice for those struggling to make ends meet.<\/li>\n<li>The rich also have access to better gyms, courts, and other facilities.<\/li>\n<li>The rich put it in different terms. They like endurance sports because the results are clear and measurable \u2013 something that modern knowledge economy workers rarely see in their careers.<\/li>\n<li>Some also talk about enjoying pain \u2013 which, ironically, many of the poor hope to escape by becoming rich.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2229791\/why-are-most-endurance-athletes-rich?curator=MediaREDEF\">Outside Online<\/a>.<span style=\"color: black; font-family: Georgia;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Sulberg examined the proclivity of the rich for endurance sports: The median triathlete has a white-collar job and earns $126,000 a year. 65% of runners make more than $75,000 a year and have an undergraduate degree. The rich have an affinity for endurance sports because they can afford the time and money it requires. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/090517_1110_WhyRichPeop1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15655,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15653\/revisions\/15655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}