{"id":13609,"date":"2009-06-02T15:27:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T22:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13609"},"modified":"2009-06-02T15:38:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T22:38:56","slug":"snowboard-skiing-powder-to-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13609","title":{"rendered":"Snowboard Skiing &#8211; Powder to the people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s not just James Packer who can own a ski resort. Craig Tansley discovers New Zealand&#8217;s best runs are family owned and operated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In Mackenzie Country, skiing isn&#8217;t the domain of the well-heeled; it&#8217;s just for anybody who ever put a pair of skis on and felt like a child all over again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8216;I&#8217;m a mechanic by trade but I bought a couple of bulldozers and made a ski field. My wife helped me and my boys. We used to be in a ski club but there were too many committees &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/travel\/powder-to-the-people-20090528-bojd.html\" 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>It&#8217;s not just James Packer who can own a ski resort. Craig Tansley discovers New Zealand&#8217;s best runs are family owned and operated. In Mackenzie Country, skiing isn&#8217;t the domain of the well-heeled; it&#8217;s just for anybody who ever put a pair of skis on and felt like a child all over again. &#8216;I&#8217;m a [&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-13609","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\/13609","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=13609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13611,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609\/revisions\/13611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}