{"id":781,"date":"2009-02-07T06:18:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T02:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2009-02-25T06:20:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T02:20:53","slug":"snowboarding-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarding in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-782\" title=\"swiss-snowboard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/swiss-snowboard-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"swiss-snowboard\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Right, I think. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to land this jump perfectly. I just have to turn it around, in order to honour its name, the backside 180.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You have to plan for progression, not for results,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lesley McKenna, ace British snowboarder, tells me, standing patiently at my side. It is the end of a long afternoon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s training, and the alpenglow lights up her face, reflecting the fire in her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>I set up for what is possibly the smallest kicker on the mountain. Laax, Switzerland, is known for consistently creating the best terrain parks for snowboarders and freestyle skiers in Europe&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/08a3a48e-f263-11dd-9678-0000779fd2ac.html\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right, I think. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to land this jump perfectly. I just have to turn it around, in order to honour its name, the backside 180. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You have to plan for progression, not for results,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lesley McKenna, ace British snowboarder, tells me, standing patiently at my side. It is the end of a long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow","category-snowboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","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=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}