{"id":386,"date":"2009-02-04T06:15:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T02:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2011-04-04T20:47:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T03:47:46","slug":"for-the-snow-deprived-snow-machines-make-winter-more-wondrous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"For the snow-deprived: Snow machines make winter more wondrous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some people dream of winter wonderlands. Others take matters in their own hands and create them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Backyard snowmaking setups can lend a hand, even if the process must be approached with a great deal of care. Matthew Pittman, owner of SnowatHome.com based in Terryville, Conn., has seen sales of snowmaking equipment double each year for the past six seasons, though he wouldn&#8217;t provide figures. In December, his busiest month, he says his site averaged 3,000 visitors each day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Likewise, snowguns.com, an online forum for snowmaking enthusiasts, says it has 5,665 members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;These backyard snowboarders are really big for us. &#8230; They make little jumps in their yard&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/canadianpress\/article\/ALeqM5gJUVtp-f5BDAUzu_upWV2C5abF_w\" target=\"_blank\">More info\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people dream of winter wonderlands. Others take matters in their own hands and create them. Backyard snowmaking setups can lend a hand, even if the process must be approached with a great deal of care. Matthew Pittman, owner of SnowatHome.com based in Terryville, Conn., has seen sales of snowmaking equipment double each year for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow","category-snowboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47397,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/47397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}