{"id":58260,"date":"2011-12-29T07:59:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T14:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=58260"},"modified":"2011-12-29T07:59:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T14:59:38","slug":"a-snowboarder-on-skinny-skis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=58260","title":{"rendered":"A snowboarder on skinny skis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0When I heard Lone Mountain Ranch (LMR) had hired Denise Wade as their new Nordic ski director, I figured it was a perfect opportunity for me to get to know her and take a lesson. For three years now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve curiously been watching cross-country skiers skiing their butts off around town, but to be perfectly honest, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m more comfortable flying down the mountain on a snowboard than slowly gliding down a small hill on skinny skis. So it was high time for a lesson in Nordic skiing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Butterflies were waging all out war in my stomach as I pulled into the Ranch for my first-ever Nordic ski lesson on Tuesday. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Will I fall?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonepeaklookout.com\/news\/article_edee003a-319d-11e1-a1ce-0019bb2963f4.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/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>\u00c2\u00a0When I heard Lone Mountain Ranch (LMR) had hired Denise Wade as their new Nordic ski director, I figured it was a perfect opportunity for me to get to know her and take a lesson. For three years now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve curiously been watching cross-country skiers skiing their butts off around town, but to be perfectly [&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-58260","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\/58260","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=58260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58262,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58260\/revisions\/58262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}