{"id":1505,"date":"2009-02-14T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2009-08-20T10:26:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T17:26:46","slug":"how-snow-sports-can-transform-a-child%e2%80%99s-life-program-gives-down-on-their-luck-kids-snowboarding-and-life-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":"How snow sports can transform a child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life &#8211; Program gives down-on-their-luck kids snowboarding and life lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1506\" title=\"skitrips\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/skitrips-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"skitrips\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Persistence is the key.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Getting up when you fall, trying again when you fail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Who can tell me something you&#8217;ve been persistent about?&#8221; asked Megan Skiles, 24, of the 34 kids sitting in a circle in the snow at the base of Bolton Valley Ski Area in Vermont.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\" style=\"text-align: left;\">They look like any group of young snowboarders decked out in the latest Burton gear, but looks, as we know, can be deceiving. These kids can&#8217;t afford snow sports or the gear, much less bus fare to the mountain. In fact, some live in homeless shelters, others live in group homes &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/29166977\/\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persistence is the key. Getting up when you fall, trying again when you fail. &#8220;Who can tell me something you&#8217;ve been persistent about?&#8221; asked Megan Skiles, 24, of the 34 kids sitting in a circle in the snow at the base of Bolton Valley Ski Area in Vermont. They look like any group of young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow","category-snowboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","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=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19273,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/19273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}