{"id":38459,"date":"2010-10-09T07:36:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=38459"},"modified":"2010-10-09T07:36:09","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T14:36:09","slug":"five-great-places-to-water-ski-in-the-us-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=38459","title":{"rendered":"Five Great Places to Water Ski in the U.S."},"content":{"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 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>Like Samuelson, avid enthusiasts will water ski nearly any time, any where there is an opportunity, even when winter temperatures and chilly water are a deterrent for most people. Fortunately, no matter what city and state you call home, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably a local lake or other body of water where you can get in some ski time, perhaps even practice your gainers and other tricks\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waterski-school.com\/waterski\/five-great-places-to-water-ski-in-the-u-s.php\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><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":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38459","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\/38459","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=38459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38460,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38459\/revisions\/38460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}