{"id":14791,"date":"2018-02-06T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2018\/02\/06\/meet-the-former-usa-luger-whos-making-sleds-for-many-teams-at-the-2018-games\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T21:23:00","slug":"meet-the-former-usa-luger-whos-making-sleds-for-many-teams-at-the-2018-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/meet-the-former-usa-luger-whos-making-sleds-for-many-teams-at-the-2018-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Former USA Luger Who&#039;s Making Sleds For Many Teams At The 2018 Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/02\/06\/583778347\/meet-the-former-usa-luger-whos-making-sleds-for-many-teams-at-the-2018-games?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">David Sommerstein<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/02\/06\/583778347\/meet-the-former-usa-luger-whos-making-sleds-for-many-teams-at-the-2018-games?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/facebook-default-wide.jpg?s=1400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>One of the fastest Olympic events is the luge. Lying down, feet first and traveling at speeds faster than 90 mph. The difference between winning and losing is tiny and a man from New York is doing his part to help athletes win gold.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/02\/06\/583778347\/meet-the-former-usa-luger-whos-making-sleds-for-many-teams-at-the-2018-games?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Meet The Former USA Luger Who&#039;s Making Sleds For Many Teams At The 2018 Games\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/02\/06\/583778347\/meet-the-former-usa-luger-whos-making-sleds-for-many-teams-at-the-2018-games?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/02\/06\/583778347\/meet-the-former-usa-luger-whos-making-sleds-for-many-teams-at-the-2018-games?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/facebook-default-wide.jpg?s=1400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>One of the fastest Olympic events is the luge. Lying down, feet first and traveling at speeds faster than 90 mph. The difference between winning and losing is tiny and a man from New York is doing his part to help athletes win gold.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}