{"id":117667,"date":"2016-04-18T06:35:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T13:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=117667"},"modified":"2016-04-18T06:35:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T13:35:43","slug":"video-eddie-the-eagle-sets-toboggan-jumping-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=117667","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Eddie &#8220;The Eagle&#8221; Sets Toboggan Jumping World Record!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when an Olympian takes up the sport of tobogganing? World records, that\u2019s what.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn\u2019t know who Eddie the Eagle Edwards was before, you most certainly should now \u2013 the Hollywood biopic about his life, starring Hugh Jackman, has now been released worldwide. If you haven\u2019t had a chance to watch it, we\u2019ll give you the basics: a construction worker from England realises his only chance at the Olympics is by entering as Britain\u2019s only ski jumper, a sport he\u2019s never done before \u2013 and a dangerous one at that.<\/p>\n<p>But this video isn\u2019t about the Hugh Jackman, the movie, or even about ski-jumping. It\u2019s about tobaggan-jumping \u2013 and Eddie the Eagle is the new (and only) world record-holder.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mG8IN_xtIRo?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when an Olympian takes up the sport of tobogganing? World records, that\u2019s what. If you didn\u2019t know who Eddie the Eagle Edwards was before, you most certainly should now \u2013 the Hollywood biopic about his life, starring Hugh Jackman, has now been released worldwide. If you haven\u2019t had a chance to watch it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,3,11,4,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bobsled","category-crash-pictures-videos","category-misc","category-snow","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117667","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=117667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117668,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117667\/revisions\/117668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}