{"id":67669,"date":"2012-08-04T08:11:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T15:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=67669"},"modified":"2012-08-04T08:11:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T15:11:13","slug":"water-skiing-teen-double-amputee-to-water-ski-at-national-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=67669","title":{"rendered":"Water Skiing &#8211; Teen double amputee to water ski at national championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">First, Eli Hager, 14, takes off his computerized prosthetic legs and eases onto the water skis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Then he grabs a rope and yells to the boat driver: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hit it!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A loud rumble of the motor and another lake adventure begins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Lincoln County teen may be a double amputee, but that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop him from skimming full-blast across the water like he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/2012\/08\/03\/3429191\/teen-double-amputee-to-water-ski.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>First, Eli Hager, 14, takes off his computerized prosthetic legs and eases onto the water skis. Then he grabs a rope and yells to the boat driver: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hit it!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d A loud rumble of the motor and another lake adventure begins. The Lincoln County teen may be a double amputee, but that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop him from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-wakeboard-tubing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67669","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=67669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67671,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67669\/revisions\/67671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}