{"id":1728,"date":"2010-02-15T14:54:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T20:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2015-01-01T08:48:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T13:48:31","slug":"olympic-shoveling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/olympic-shoveling\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Shoveling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1729\" title=\"Olympic_Shoveling\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/olympic_shoveling.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By now everyone&#8217;s heard about Mark Ladwig, the Olympic figure skater from Moorhead.<\/strong> Unfortunately for Minnesota residents, he&#8217;s better known by his nickname &#8220;Fargo&#8221; in the Olympic village \u2014 so by proxy us North Dakotans get any press (positive or negative) surrounding his performance in Vancouver. It&#8217;s not really a stretch to think that someone from the frigid north would excel at a sport that takes place on the ice (certainly not ironic like the Jamaican bobsled team). If the Olympic Committee ever decided to take a look at adopting Shoveling as an event, there would be far more athletes coming from North Dakota. We have the perfect training conditions for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now everyone&#8217;s heard about Mark Ladwig, the Olympic figure skater from Moorhead. Unfortunately for Minnesota residents, he&#8217;s better known by his nickname &#8220;Fargo&#8221; in the Olympic village \u2014 so by proxy us North Dakotans get any press (positive or negative) surrounding his performance in Vancouver. It&#8217;s not really a stretch to think that someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[111,31,112],"tags":[375,376],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow","category-sports","category-winter","tag-olympics","tag-shoveling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-rS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8017,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/8017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}