{"id":87672,"date":"2013-12-03T21:37:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T04:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=87672"},"modified":"2013-12-03T21:37:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T04:37:28","slug":"teaching-young-skiers-keep-the-focus-on-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=87672","title":{"rendered":"Teaching young skiers: Keep the focus on fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A hard wind pelted exposed areas of our faces with tiny pellets of sleet and drove the 16-degree air through any chink in the ski gear covering my 4-year-old son Alex and me. He&#8217;d just fallen getting off a ski lift at Utah&#8217;s Brighton Ski Resort and I could see the tears welling up through the\u00a0goggles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Swift, decisive action was\u00a0essential.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Minutes later, we were sharing a large hot chocolate, a plate of cheese fries and planning our afternoon away from the mountain. A full belly, time at the hotel pool and a nap rescued\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/Teaching-young-skiers-Keep-the-focus-on-fun-5030898.php\" 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>A hard wind pelted exposed areas of our faces with tiny pellets of sleet and drove the 16-degree air through any chink in the ski gear covering my 4-year-old son Alex and me. He&#8217;d just fallen getting off a ski lift at Utah&#8217;s Brighton Ski Resort and I could see the tears welling up through [&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-87672","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\/87672","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=87672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87673,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87672\/revisions\/87673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}