{"id":3088,"date":"2012-03-12T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=3088"},"modified":"2013-09-22T21:00:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T01:00:33","slug":"using-fed-ex-to-get-athletes-to-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/using-fed-ex-to-get-athletes-to-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Fed-Ex to get Athletes to the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/031012_0350_UsingFedExt1.jpg\" width=\"633\" height=\"474\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2012 is an Olympic year and this means that the world&#8217;s fastest runners will soon be gathering in London. We are, of course, referring to horses. But how do you get them all the way to England? Bill Chappell found out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 1100 pound horses will be Fed-Exed from Newark airport to London in specially designed stalls that will house two horses each. Fed-Ex charges by the kilo.<\/li>\n<li>The horses will be given an inflight meal that consists of hay, carrots, Gatorade and apple juice.<\/li>\n<li>The horses are going to be jetlagged when they arrive in England, although certain horses deal with changing time zones better than others.<\/li>\n<li>While the horses aren&#8217;t seated for takeoff, landing, or times of turbulence, they are required to keep their equivalent of a seatbelt fastened throughout the flight. No word on whether or not they have to put their smartphones into flight mode.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read about the measures being taken to ensure that the horses don&#8217;t fret, the role that mood lighting has to play, and why they may give the horses the equivalent of a couple of glasses of champagne click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2012\/03\/07\/148085883\/how-do-you-ship-a-horse-to-the-2012-london-olympics\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2012\/03\/07\/148085883\/how-do-you-ship-a-horse-to-the-2012-london-olympics\">NPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/03\/assorted-links-389.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+marginalrevolution%2Ffeed+%28Marginal+Revolution%29&amp;utm_content=Netvibes\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 is an Olympic year and this means that the world&#8217;s fastest runners will soon be gathering in London. We are, of course, referring to horses. But how do you get them all the way to England? Bill Chappell found out: The 1100 pound horses will be Fed-Exed from Newark airport to London in specially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-3088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature","tag-pet-perks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/031012_0350_UsingFedExt1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9746,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions\/9746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}