{"id":70722,"date":"2012-10-06T07:58:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T14:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=70722"},"modified":"2012-10-06T07:58:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T14:58:18","slug":"life-as-a-snowboard-instructor-what%e2%80%99s-it-really-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=70722","title":{"rendered":"Life as a snowboard instructor &#8211; what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s it really like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"storyTop \">\u00c2\u00a0Working as a snowboard instructor is surely about as far from the 9-5 routine as a job gets. But what is life as a snowboard instructor actually like? Does the envious or negative imagery that the job title conjures-up have any grounding in reality?<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"body \" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dominic Piper, from Perth in Scotland, take a bow. He has been working as a snowboard instructor at Sunshine Village ski resort in Banff, Canada for the past four seasons. Everyone has an opinion on what he does but how do these views compare to Dom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own account of what it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really like?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/life-as-a-snowboard-instructor--whats-it-really-like-8199070.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0Working as a snowboard instructor is surely about as far from the 9-5 routine as a job gets. But what is life as a snowboard instructor actually like? Does the envious or negative imagery that the job title conjures-up have any grounding in reality? Dominic Piper, from Perth in Scotland, take a bow. He has [&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-70722","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\/70722","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=70722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70723,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70722\/revisions\/70723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}