{"id":12413,"date":"2009-05-18T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T18:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12413"},"modified":"2009-05-18T15:23:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T22:23:40","slug":"snowboard-skiing-ski-field-opens-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12413","title":{"rendered":"Snowboard Skiing &#8211; Ski field opens early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12414\" title=\"nz-ski\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/05\/nz-ski.bmp\" alt=\"nz-ski\" \/>Taranaki&#8217;s humble Manganui skifield is the first in the country to open for the season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yesterday Mt Taranaki&#8217;s skifield opened thanks to a 25cm dumping of snow the previous day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Other skifields around the country in both the north and south are still almost a month behind, with most opening in mid to late June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Manganui ski field operators had initially hoped to open today, but got in a day early after the weather cleared up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Stratford Mountain Club member Jack Cran said the field was opened about 11am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;It was lovely, the wind turned south-west and it cleared,&#8221; Mr Cran said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">About 50 people took the opportunity to get a taste of the fresh powder&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/travel\/new-zealand\/2405908\/Ski-field-opens-early\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taranaki&#8217;s humble Manganui skifield is the first in the country to open for the season. Yesterday Mt Taranaki&#8217;s skifield opened thanks to a 25cm dumping of snow the previous day. Other skifields around the country in both the north and south are still almost a month behind, with most opening in mid to late June. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow","category-snowboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12413","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=12413"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12517,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12413\/revisions\/12517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}