{"id":15251,"date":"2018-03-08T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2018\/03\/08\/why-1-u-s-snowboarder-competing-in-his-first-paralympics-is-helping-his-competition\/"},"modified":"2018-03-08T21:22:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T21:22:00","slug":"why-1-u-s-snowboarder-competing-in-his-first-paralympics-is-helping-his-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/why-1-u-s-snowboarder-competing-in-his-first-paralympics-is-helping-his-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Why 1 U.S. Snowboarder Competing In His First Paralympics Is Helping His Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/03\/08\/592046315\/why-1-u-s-snowboarder-competing-in-his-first-paralympics-is-helping-his-competit?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">Tom Goldman<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/03\/08\/592046315\/why-1-u-s-snowboarder-competing-in-his-first-paralympics-is-helping-his-competit?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>Mike Schultz lost his leg in a snowmobile race accident in 2008. Since then, he created a successful business making prosthetic legs and learned to snowboard so well that he&#8217;s about to compete in the 2018 Winter Paralympics.<\/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\/03\/08\/592046315\/why-1-u-s-snowboarder-competing-in-his-first-paralympics-is-helping-his-competit?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Why 1 U.S. Snowboarder Competing In His First Paralympics Is Helping His Competition\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/03\/08\/592046315\/why-1-u-s-snowboarder-competing-in-his-first-paralympics-is-helping-his-competit?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\/03\/08\/592046315\/why-1-u-s-snowboarder-competing-in-his-first-paralympics-is-helping-his-competit?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>Mike Schultz lost his leg in a snowmobile race accident in 2008. Since then, he created a successful business making prosthetic legs and learned to snowboard so well that he&#8217;s about to compete in the 2018 Winter Paralympics.<\/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-15251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15251","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=15251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}