{"id":24348,"date":"2009-11-29T09:57:06","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T16:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=24348"},"modified":"2009-11-29T09:57:06","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T16:57:06","slug":"water-skiing-five-great-places-to-water-ski-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=24348","title":{"rendered":"Water Skiing &#8211; Five Great Places to Water Ski in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Most of us associate water skiing with summertime fun \u00e2\u20ac\u201c warm sunshine, beaches and picnics \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so it may come as a surprise that water skiing was born in Minnesota in 1922 when Ralph Samuelson used two boards and a clothesline to ski across Lake Pepin. Samuelson has been credited by the American Water Ski Association as the first water ski racer, and the first to jump a ramp and slalom ski, as well as the first to hold a water ski show, too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Like Samuelson, avid enthusiasts will water ski nearly any time, any where there is\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/floridakeys10.cityspur.com\/2009\/11\/28\/five-great-places-to-water-ski-in-the-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us associate water skiing with summertime fun \u00e2\u20ac\u201c warm sunshine, beaches and picnics \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so it may come as a surprise that water skiing was born in Minnesota in 1922 when Ralph Samuelson used two boards and a clothesline to ski across Lake Pepin. Samuelson has been credited by the American Water Ski [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24348","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\/24348","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=24348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24349,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24348\/revisions\/24349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}