{"id":951,"date":"2009-02-09T09:53:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T05:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=951"},"modified":"2009-02-25T09:55:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T05:55:39","slug":"high-point-speedskater-plots-a-familiar-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"High Point speedskater plots a familiar path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-952\" title=\"speed-skater\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/speed-skater-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"speed-skater\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stop me if you&#8217;ve heard this one before: North Carolina kid trades inline skates for ice skates and rises quickly through the ranks, just in time to make a run at the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>No one is calling Heather Richardson the next Joey Cheek just yet, but she&#8217;s definitely an athlete to watch as the countdown to the Vancouver Olympics hits the one-year mark this week.<\/p>\n<p>Richardson, a 19-year-old from High Point, is the reigning U.S. champion in long-track speedskating&#8217;s sprint events and recently finished 20th at the World Sprints&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-record.com\/content\/2009\/02\/09\/article\/high_point_speedskater_plots_a_familiar_path\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop me if you&#8217;ve heard this one before: North Carolina kid trades inline skates for ice skates and rises quickly through the ranks, just in time to make a run at the Winter Olympics. No one is calling Heather Richardson the next Joey Cheek just yet, but she&#8217;s definitely an athlete to watch as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skate-roller-inline-ice","category-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","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=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}