{"id":13522,"date":"2009-06-02T12:11:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T19:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13522"},"modified":"2009-06-02T12:11:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T19:11:47","slug":"snowboard-skiing-mt-hutt-ski-field-welcomes-aussie-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13522","title":{"rendered":"Snowboard Skiing &#8211; Mt Hutt ski field welcomes &#8216;Aussie Invasion&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Despite the economic downturn the ski industry has been given a lift with predictions of an &#8220;Aussie invasion\u00e2\u20ac\u009d adding millions to the economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One of those ski fields reaping the benefits is Mount Hutt &#8211; today enjoying its earliest opening in over ten years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The first ski field to open in the Southern Hemisphere was packed as a one metre snow base and perfect conditions ensured over 2000 skiers got a good run for their money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh this is amazing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says skier Jane Innes. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I just can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re actually here and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s May. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not awake yet \u00e2\u20ac\u201c this is incredible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In 35 years skiing here it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably one of the best starts&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/News\/BusinessNews\/Mt-Hutt-ski-field-welcomes-Aussie-Invasion\/tabid\/421\/articleID\/106574\/cat\/52\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the economic downturn the ski industry has been given a lift with predictions of an &#8220;Aussie invasion\u00e2\u20ac\u009d adding millions to the economy. One of those ski fields reaping the benefits is Mount Hutt &#8211; today enjoying its earliest opening in over ten years. The first ski field to open in the Southern Hemisphere was [&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-13522","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\/13522","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=13522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13523,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13522\/revisions\/13523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}