{"id":8285,"date":"2009-04-09T08:46:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T15:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8285"},"modified":"2009-04-09T08:46:24","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T15:46:24","slug":"snowboard-skiing-dry-slope-brushing-up-on-riding-snowless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8285","title":{"rendered":"Snowboard Skiing &#8211; Dry Slope, Brushing up on riding, snowless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8287\" title=\"dry-slope\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/04\/dry-slope.bmp\" alt=\"dry-slope\" \/>I get off the chairlift and glide out onto a strange facsimile of snow. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look like snow and it sure doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like it. But to someone who has never seen snow before or someone with a very vivid imagination, it could be.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What looks like toothbrush bristles woven into a giant 400 metre-long chicken wire mat is what doubles as snow to many Brits. A few button lifts, a chairlift, add in a few skiers and snowboarders and we have one of the many snowless \u00c2\u00a0dry slopes that are scattered throughout the UK.\u00c2\u00a0Just outside Edinburgh, Scotland is the Midlothian Snowsports Center Hillend, Europe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s longest dry slope &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vueweekly.com\/article.php?id=11536\" target=\"_blank\">Details\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get off the chairlift and glide out onto a strange facsimile of snow. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look like snow and it sure doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like it. But to someone who has never seen snow before or someone with a very vivid imagination, it could be.\u00c2\u00a0 What looks like toothbrush bristles woven into a giant 400 [&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-8285","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\/8285","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=8285"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8290,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285\/revisions\/8290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}