{"id":13237,"date":"2009-05-26T12:56:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T19:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13237"},"modified":"2009-05-27T21:00:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T04:00:41","slug":"snowboard-skiing-fairytale-opening-to-ski-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13237","title":{"rendered":"Snowboard Skiing &#8211; Fairytale opening to ski season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13238\" title=\"nz-snow\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/05\/nz-snow.bmp\" alt=\"nz-snow\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0A stormy May, with waves of snow-laden southerlies marching up the country, has handed New Zealand ski-fields a fairytale opening to the new season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With tough economics compelling ski- fields to market themselves hard to Australians, don&#8217;t be surprised to see more than a few Wallaby jerseys in the queue this season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Interest from Aussie skiers at nationwide ski fairs this month has been reportedly at record levels and bookings are up on the last (albeit scantily clad) snow season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Northern ski areas are inundated with snow bases of more than a metre. Mangonui, on the slopes of Mt Taranaki, is the first field to open this year&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/travel\/new-zealand\/2442017\/Fairytale-opening-to-ski-season\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/placeholder-3701093?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0A stormy May, with waves of snow-laden southerlies marching up the country, has handed New Zealand ski-fields a fairytale opening to the new season. With tough economics compelling ski- fields to market themselves hard to Australians, don&#8217;t be surprised to see more than a few Wallaby jerseys in the queue this season. Interest from Aussie [&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-13237","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\/13237","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=13237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13384,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13237\/revisions\/13384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}