{"id":15968,"date":"2018-01-03T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15968"},"modified":"2018-01-03T07:22:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T12:22:33","slug":"there-are-olympics-for-valets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2018\/there-are-olympics-for-valets\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are Olympics For Valets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/010318_1217_ThereAreOly1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"369\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Geoff Manaugh wrote about car parking athletes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At the National Valet Olympics athletes sort through jumbles of keys to find the one for their vehicle, sprint across parking lots, pack luggage, and, of course, park cars.<\/li>\n<li>The equipment is intentionally imperfect. Luggage carts have broken wheels. Garages slope.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not always about speed. In one event valets &#8220;race&#8221; each other but aren&#8217;t allowed to exceed 10 miles (16 km) per hour.<\/li>\n<li>Companies send teams. Some will hold internal mini-Olympics to determine who to send.<\/li>\n<li>Men and women compete against each other. In 2015 Katie Richards of AmeriPark was the first woman to win the top title.<\/li>\n<li>For valets that often drive cars that cost more than their entire apartment the games provide a sense of recognition and achievement.<\/li>\n<li>There are several ideas to improve the games. Some suggest a social element with impatient rich customers yelling at the valets to perform faster.<\/li>\n<li>Others suggest an event where valets are challenged to fit as many cars as possible in a single space without scratching any vehicle.<\/li>\n<li>Plans for a winter Olympics have been mooted so that valets skilled in walking across icy asphalt can demonstrate their talents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read much more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2018\/01\/parking-for-gold\/549407\/\">The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Manaugh wrote about car parking athletes: At the National Valet Olympics athletes sort through jumbles of keys to find the one for their vehicle, sprint across parking lots, pack luggage, and, of course, park cars. The equipment is intentionally imperfect. Luggage carts have broken wheels. Garages slope. It&#8217;s not always about speed. In one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15968","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\/2018\/01\/010318_1217_ThereAreOly1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15968","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=15968"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15972,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15968\/revisions\/15972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}