{"id":117191,"date":"2016-04-06T18:41:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T01:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=117191"},"modified":"2016-04-06T18:41:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T01:41:03","slug":"snow-skiing-living-legend-klaus-obermeyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=117191","title":{"rendered":"Snow Skiing &#8211; Living Legend: Klaus Obermeyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Klaus Obermeyer started skiing 93 years ago, he skied on thin pieces of chestnut wood. The wood was from an old crate used to carry oranges. He nailed a pair of his buckle shoes to them with a couple of inches of nail sticking through the bottom, and tied one end of a string around the tips, and the other around his knees to create ski tips.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re three, you\u2019re not a very good carpenter,\u201d Obermeyer says.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until he was about 5 years old that he got his first real pair of skis\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skinet.com\/ski\/article\/living-legend-klaus-obermeyer?lnk=rss&amp;loc=homepage\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Klaus Obermeyer started skiing 93 years ago, he skied on thin pieces of chestnut wood. The wood was from an old crate used to carry oranges. He nailed a pair of his buckle shoes to them with a couple of inches of nail sticking through the bottom, and tied one end of a string [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117192,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117191\/revisions\/117192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}