{"id":71509,"date":"2012-10-27T09:51:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T16:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=71509"},"modified":"2012-10-27T09:51:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T16:51:02","slug":"skiing-and-culture-in-the-french-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=71509","title":{"rendered":"Skiing and culture in the French Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do skiing and culture mix? Rarely. In 1834 the French novelist Balzac wrote about it in his novel S\u00c3\u00a9raph\u00c3\u00aeta, but the kit was rudimentary to say the least. (&#8220;Seraphitus threw his weight upon his right heel, arresting the plank \u00e2\u20ac\u201c six and a half feet long and narrow as the foot of a child \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which was fastened to his boot by a double thong of leather.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A century later another Frenchman, Jean-Paul Sartre, ventured to the slopes of\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/travel\/2012\/oct\/26\/skiing-culture-french-alps?newsfeed=true\" 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>Do skiing and culture mix? Rarely. In 1834 the French novelist Balzac wrote about it in his novel S\u00c3\u00a9raph\u00c3\u00aeta, but the kit was rudimentary to say the least. (&#8220;Seraphitus threw his weight upon his right heel, arresting the plank \u00e2\u20ac\u201c six and a half feet long and narrow as the foot of a child \u00e2\u20ac\u201c [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4,52,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow","category-snowboard","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71509","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=71509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71510,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71509\/revisions\/71510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}