{"id":90960,"date":"2014-02-24T21:30:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T04:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90960"},"modified":"2014-02-24T21:30:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T04:30:59","slug":"wounded-veteran-to-snowboarding-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90960","title":{"rendered":"Wounded veteran to snowboarding champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">WASHINGTON &#8212; He stands tall on his snowboard, maneuvering a championship\u00a0 course with speed and agility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That snowboard has been his ticket to competitions around the world &#8212; from\u00a0 Colorado to New Zealand. It has also been a driving force in his recovery from the\u00a0 wounds of war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Capt. Wayne Waldon lost his right leg on the battlefield in Iraq on July 11, 2007.\u00a0 He was airlifted first to a military facility in Germany, and a few days later to\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtop.com\/267\/3567970\/One-Olympics-over-another-soon-begins\" 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>WASHINGTON &#8212; He stands tall on his snowboard, maneuvering a championship\u00a0 course with speed and agility. That snowboard has been his ticket to competitions around the world &#8212; from\u00a0 Colorado to New Zealand. It has also been a driving force in his recovery from the\u00a0 wounds of war. Capt. Wayne Waldon lost his right leg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90960","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\/90960","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=90960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90961,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90960\/revisions\/90961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}