{"id":14585,"date":"2009-06-15T12:33:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T19:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14585"},"modified":"2009-06-15T12:33:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T19:33:59","slug":"water-skiing-shes-been-water-skiing-for-over-30-years-since-age-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14585","title":{"rendered":"Water Skiing &#8211; She&#8217;s been water-skiing for over 30 years &#8230; since age 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Woofenden is an 84-year-old competitive trick water skier who also bikes 10 miles a day.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"body\">But it&#8217;s her functioning knees that are her greatest source of pride.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>She brags about them like some would their grandkids.<\/p>\n<p>And why shouldn&#8217;t she? While others with far younger joints dread a flight of stairs, Frances gracefully twists, turns and twirls like a dancer, while balanced on a slat of carbon graphite and tethered to a boat doing 28 miles an hour.<\/p>\n<p>This unusual talent landed her a gig as the face \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and body and lifestyle \u00e2\u20ac\u201d of V8, the vegetable drink. The grandmother from suburban West Palm Beach zips across the water in &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/accent\/content\/accent\/epaper\/2009\/06\/12\/a1d_waterski_woman_web_0613.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Woofenden is an 84-year-old competitive trick water skier who also bikes 10 miles a day. But it&#8217;s her functioning knees that are her greatest source of pride. She brags about them like some would their grandkids. And why shouldn&#8217;t she? While others with far younger joints dread a flight of stairs, Frances gracefully twists, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-water-skiing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14585","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=14585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14586,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14585\/revisions\/14586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}