{"id":1168,"date":"2022-08-02T22:47:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T04:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2022-08-02T22:47:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T04:47:46","slug":"21-vegas-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/?p=1168","title":{"rendered":"21 Vegas Style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Only a few days left in the Kickstarter for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/drewkarpyshyn\/time-kings-of-las-vegas\" target=\"_blank\">Time Kings of Las Vegas<\/a>! Still time to grab your personalized, signed copy of my new novel&#8230; along with autographed copies of all my other books! (And still a few VIP packages left for the exclusive meet and greet dinner in Sin City on Saturday, December 10.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I continue to be amazed at all the support I&#8217;ve received already &#8211; right now we&#8217;re sitting a little over 18K in pledges, well over my original 10K goal. And I&#8217;m very, very grateful to everyone who has contributed so far&#8230; but as we move into the final few days of the campaign, I&#8217;ve decided I have a new goal: 21K!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You see, 21 is a very special number when it comes to Las Vegas. Anyone who&#8217;s played blackjack knows the goal is to get 21, and you can&#8217;t even gamble in Vegas if you&#8217;re not at least 21 years old. And, since my new novel is set in Vegas, it feels like hitting 21K on the Kickstarter would have a nice little symmetry to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also happens that 21 is one of my go-to numbers when I play roulette, in honor of the my favorite athlete of all time: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tim_Duncan\">Tim Duncan, the all time GOAT NBA power forward<\/a>! (He&#8217;s also the inspiration for some of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theonion.com\/tag\/tim-duncan\" target=\"_blank\">The Onion&#8217;s<\/a> greatest sports-themed articles!) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So maybe I&#8217;m just looking for patterns where none exist. Maybe this is just a cheap ploy to squeeze out a few more $$$ for my Kickstarter. Or maybe &#8211; just maybe &#8211; the universe is trying to tell me something. Whatever the answer, lets make it happen &#8211; 21K for Time Kings, baby!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a few days left in the Kickstarter for Time Kings of Las Vegas! Still time to grab your personalized, signed copy of my new novel&#8230; along with autographed copies of all my other books! (And still a few VIP packages left for the exclusive meet and greet dinner in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}