{"id":152404,"date":"2019-08-12T13:19:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T20:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=152404"},"modified":"2019-08-12T13:38:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T20:38:53","slug":"urban-ski-legend-lj-strenio-works-for-nasa-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=152404","title":{"rendered":"Urban Ski Legend LJ Strenio Works For NASA Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this summer, as America celebrated the Apollo 11 moon landing\u2019s 50th anniversary, LJ Strenio opened an email from NASA with a job offer. Yes, the Vermont-born, Oregon-based urban skier you know from his 2017 X Games Real Ski video, which won him Fan Favorite and a bronze medal; or from his regular appearances on Line\u2019s Traveling Circus or from his gig as a Vin Diesel stunt double in XXX.<\/p>\n<p>A decade ago, Strenio earned a bachelor\u2019s in English literature and film from the University of Utah, and now, at 30, he\u2019s grinding away on another degree, in computer science, from Portland State University. Starting this month   &#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powder.com\/interview\/urban-ski-legend-lj-strenio-works-for-nasa-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eUEtU-K6LSU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this summer, as America celebrated the Apollo 11 moon landing\u2019s 50th anniversary, LJ Strenio opened an email from NASA with a job offer. Yes, the Vermont-born, Oregon-based urban skier you know from his 2017 X Games Real Ski video, which won him Fan Favorite and a bronze medal; or from his regular appearances on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,51,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-skiing","category-snow","category-snowboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152404","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=152404"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152416,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152404\/revisions\/152416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}