{"id":138258,"date":"2017-12-19T07:46:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T14:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=138258"},"modified":"2017-12-19T07:46:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T14:46:02","slug":"how-the-niche-world-of-speed-skiing-is-getting-even-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=138258","title":{"rendered":"How the Niche World of Speed Skiing is Getting Even Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For the fastest skiers on the planet, speed is the most natural thing in the world<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A speed skier&#8217;s world unravels before their brain can catch up. A groove in the snow, a misangled ski, and before the mind even realizes it, the body is in a 200 kilometer per hour slide for life. Snow becomes fire\u2014the custom-made speed suit designed to eliminate wind resistance doing little to relieve the scorching friction of skin on frozen water.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can you imagine being in a really, really hot frying pan and not being able to escape?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powder.com\/stories\/features\/how-the-niche-world-of-speed-skiing-is-getting-even-faster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the fastest skiers on the planet, speed is the most natural thing in the world A speed skier&#8217;s world unravels before their brain can catch up. A groove in the snow, a misangled ski, and before the mind even realizes it, the body is in a 200 kilometer per hour slide for life. Snow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138258","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=138258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138259,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138258\/revisions\/138259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}