{"id":85027,"date":"2013-10-10T17:24:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T00:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=85027"},"modified":"2013-10-10T17:24:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T00:24:48","slug":"northwest-starts-ski-season-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=85027","title":{"rendered":"Northwest starts ski season early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After a few early season storms dumped measurable snowfall on the northwest corner of the United States, resorts in Washington and Oregon decided to give their faithful something to celebrate, opening up for a few days of October skiing. Last week Crystal Mountain in Washington became the first ski area open in North America, followed a few days later by Stevens Pass, also of Washington.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThere was too much snow to open our bike park,\u201d explained Stevens Pass vice president of operations Joel Martinez. \u201cSo we said, \u2018why not go skiing?\u2019\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/action-sports\/snow\/post\/northwest-starts-ski-season-early\/\" 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>After a few early season storms dumped measurable snowfall on the northwest corner of the United States, resorts in Washington and Oregon decided to give their faithful something to celebrate, opening up for a few days of October skiing. Last week Crystal Mountain in Washington became the first ski area open in North America, followed [&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-85027","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\/85027","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=85027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85029,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85027\/revisions\/85029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}