{"id":90720,"date":"2014-02-18T14:22:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T21:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90720"},"modified":"2014-02-18T14:22:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T21:22:04","slug":"snow-skiing-american-david-wise-wins-halfpipe-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90720","title":{"rendered":"Snow Skiing &#8211; American David Wise wins halfpipe gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The weather didn\u2019t let up, but neither did David Wise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On Tuesday, the 23-year-old American double-corked his way to the first-ever Olympic gold medal in halfpipe skiing as hundreds of flag-bearing spectators looked on. Close behind Wise, Canadian Mike Riddle earned silver as Frenchman Kevin Rolland rounded out the podium with the bronze on the historic evening in Sochi, Russia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Blinding snow made it difficult to see the top of the pipe, much less jump out of it, but 12 competitors from five different nations didn\u2019t let that slow their sport\u2019s debut\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/olympics\/2014-winter-olympics\/post\/american-david-wise-secures-halfpipe-skiing-gold\/\" 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>The weather didn\u2019t let up, but neither did David Wise. On Tuesday, the 23-year-old American double-corked his way to the first-ever Olympic gold medal in halfpipe skiing as hundreds of flag-bearing spectators looked on. Close behind Wise, Canadian Mike Riddle earned silver as Frenchman Kevin Rolland rounded out the podium with the bronze on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90720","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=90720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90724,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90720\/revisions\/90724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}