{"id":155480,"date":"2020-02-16T12:11:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T19:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=155480"},"modified":"2020-02-16T12:11:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T19:11:46","slug":"i-am-a-black-woman-who-learned-to-ski-at-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=155480","title":{"rendered":"I Am a Black Woman Who Learned to Ski at 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-subtitle\"><em>This mother from Chicago set aside her fear and ego for her son<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am a black woman who learned to downhill ski for the first time at 50. My husband, Mike, has been a downhill skier his entire life. Every winter, he would watch the falling snow and remark, \u201cI could be skiing right now.\u201d However, circumstances kept him from the slopes. Circumstances like being married to a non-skier.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we adopted an eight-year-old. Eric is a doe-eyed, peanut butter-brown little boy. He is lithe and full of kinetic energy; an adrenaline chaser. He is happiest on the move\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powder.com\/stories\/i-am-a-black-woman-who-learned-to-ski-at-50\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This mother from Chicago set aside her fear and ego for her son I am a black woman who learned to downhill ski for the first time at 50. My husband, Mike, has been a downhill skier his entire life. Every winter, he would watch the falling snow and remark, \u201cI could be skiing right [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155480","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=155480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155482,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155480\/revisions\/155482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}