{"id":5855,"date":"2016-03-07T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/03\/07\/in-upstate-new-york-lack-of-snow-creates-a-paradise-for-nordic-skaters\/"},"modified":"2016-03-07T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T21:27:00","slug":"in-upstate-new-york-lack-of-snow-creates-a-paradise-for-nordic-skaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/in-upstate-new-york-lack-of-snow-creates-a-paradise-for-nordic-skaters\/","title":{"rendered":"In Upstate New York, Lack Of Snow Creates A Paradise For Nordic Skaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/07\/469545426\/in-upstate-new-york-lack-of-snow-creates-a-paradise-for-nordic-skaters?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">Brian Mann<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>The lack of snow in upstate New York has created a paradise for skaters \u2014 most specifically, Nordic skaters. It is a little-known sport in the U.S., involving long blades designed to speed over rough lakes and rivers. NPR meets some Nordic skaters who cover 30 to 40 miles of wilderness ice in a day.<\/p>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/07\/469545426\/in-upstate-new-york-lack-of-snow-creates-a-paradise-for-nordic-skaters?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"In Upstate New York, Lack Of Snow Creates A Paradise For Nordic Skaters\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/07\/469545426\/in-upstate-new-york-lack-of-snow-creates-a-paradise-for-nordic-skaters?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lack of snow in upstate New York has created a paradise for skaters \u2014 most specifically, Nordic skaters. It is a little-known sport in the U.S., involving long blades designed to speed over rough lakes and rivers. NPR meets some Nordic skaters who cover 30 to 40 miles of wilderness ice in a day.<\/p>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/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-5855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855","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=5855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}