{"id":124707,"date":"2016-11-14T07:47:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T14:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=124707"},"modified":"2016-11-14T07:47:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T14:47:10","slug":"the-science-behind-powder-giggles-and-why-snow-skiing-is-addictive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=124707","title":{"rendered":"The science behind powder giggles and why snow skiing is addictive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to work at a ski resort, and I can remember on powder days we\u2019d hear the general manager as he flew down the mountain, hooting with laughter.<\/p>\n<p>Here was this 6-foot-something guy, giggling like a little kid \u2014 and, of course, he wasn\u2019t alone. We had the powder giggles.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who\u2019s skied even 6 inches of fresh snow knows that there\u2019s something electrifying about it \u2014 something addictive\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/skiing\/science-behind-powder-giggles-skiing-addictive\/#ay5V0vgEpxXDyiyC.97\" 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>I used to work at a ski resort, and I can remember on powder days we\u2019d hear the general manager as he flew down the mountain, hooting with laughter. Here was this 6-foot-something guy, giggling like a little kid \u2014 and, of course, he wasn\u2019t alone. We had the powder giggles. Anyone who\u2019s skied even [&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-124707","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\/124707","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=124707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124708,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124707\/revisions\/124708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}