{"id":10215,"date":"2019-09-14T17:04:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T21:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=10215"},"modified":"2019-09-14T17:04:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T21:04:58","slug":"thebenjamin-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2019\/09\/thebenjamin-4\/","title":{"rendered":"#TheBenjamin #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>#THEBENJAMIN: ROUND 4 <\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10221 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/4-300x180.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/4-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/4.png 687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>#TheBenjamin year 3 will complete today.\u00a0 Round 4 starts tomorrow on September 15th.\u00a0 Message me if you&#8217;ve completed year 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Status Update\/The Deck:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thus far 3 pax have completed #TheBenjamin.\u00a0\u00a0Closer (2017), Bueller? (2018), and Spicoli (2018).\u00a0 Each collected an ace from the Deck of Benjamin as dealt out by the Joker (YHC).\u00a0 A lone ace is left, though there are several who started midyear and have their eyes on it.\u00a0 Kings will follow.\u00a0 Who wants next?\u00a0 Tweet it out as you participate, using #TheBenjamin to tag it.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s options:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10218 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>1.\u00a0 #TheBenjamin, The Original.\u00a0 100 Merkins a day any way.\u00a0 If you are new or have been living under a rock, here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/thebenjamin-round-3\/\">HISTORY<\/a>.\u00a0 Scroll to the bottom for the FAQ<strong>\u00a0.\u00a0<\/strong> This is the only way to qualify to receive a card from the Deck of Benjamin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10217 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IF-AD624_FOREX_P_20180802165440-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IF-AD624_FOREX_P_20180802165440-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IF-AD624_FOREX_P_20180802165440.jpg 749w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>2.\u00a0 #TheBenjamin, International Tour.\u00a0 Designed for those who are interested, but not stoked about doing the full 100 Merkins each day.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll travel around the world month to month doing enough Merkins to get 100 of each local currency, but as usual we&#8217;ll earn 1 American dollar per Merkin.\u00a0 So exchange rates will be crucial.\u00a0 Our first trip will be to China where fortunately the Chinese Yuan has devalued significantly and now exchanges at 7.08 Yuan to the American dollar.\u00a0 To obtain 100 Yuan, you&#8217;ll need 15 American dollars and thus need to do 15 Merkins.\u00a0 October 15th we&#8217;ll move to another country, and so on.\u00a0 Summary: number of Merkins changes each month and we&#8217;ll do 15 a day for the first month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As ancient legend has it, &#8220;Thou Merkin be easy.\u00a0 Thy establishment of habit?\u00a0 That be the challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Need encouragement?\u00a0 Ask an ace.<\/p>\n<p>See you on the strong side!<\/p>\n<p>-Patch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#THEBENJAMIN: ROUND 4 &nbsp; #TheBenjamin year 3 will complete today.\u00a0 Round 4 starts tomorrow on September 15th.\u00a0 Message me if you&#8217;ve completed year 3. Status Update\/The Deck: Thus far 3 pax have completed #TheBenjamin.\u00a0\u00a0Closer (2017), Bueller? (2018), and Spicoli (2018).\u00a0 Each collected an ace from the Deck of Benjamin as dealt out by the Joker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"q":"Patch","date":"2019-2020","pax":"You"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10224,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215\/revisions\/10224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}