{"id":3763,"date":"2009-03-15T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T21:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3763"},"modified":"2009-03-15T13:01:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T21:01:45","slug":"inline-ice-skating-americas-j-rod-on-the-speedskating-comeback-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3763","title":{"rendered":"Inline &#038; Ice Skating &#8211; America&#8217;s J-Rod: On the speedskating comeback trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given the competition, and the circumstances, she&#8217;ll take this as a moral victory.<\/p>\n<p>Finishing in 13th place in the 1,000 meters today was a familiar face: returning U.S. veteran Jennifer Rodriguez<strong>,<\/strong> 32, who&#8217;s in the midst of a career comeback that began more than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>J-Rod, a Salt Lake Games double bronze medalist (1,000, 1,500 meters), gave up the sport after a frustrating Turin Games in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>She decided to give it another shot after an imprpomptu ice encounter &#8212; she stepped on the &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com\/olympics\/2009\/03\/14\/americas_j-rod_on_the_speedska.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the competition, and the circumstances, she&#8217;ll take this as a moral victory. Finishing in 13th place in the 1,000 meters today was a familiar face: returning U.S. veteran Jennifer Rodriguez, 32, who&#8217;s in the midst of a career comeback that began more than a year ago. J-Rod, a Salt Lake Games double bronze medalist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skate-roller-inline-ice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763","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=3763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3766,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions\/3766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}