{"id":52,"date":"2021-10-12T21:51:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T21:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/thelastdance\/?p=52"},"modified":"2021-10-12T21:51:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T21:51:05","slug":"winter-time-delight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/thelastdance\/2021\/10\/12\/winter-time-delight\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Time Delight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

              As the first snowflakes drop down near me in Billings Montana, I am reminded of a memory that takes place during a skiing trip I took with a friend of mine. I did not start skiing at a young age, in fact this memory is the about the first time I went skiing. Many great things happened after time, but to start it was a very humbling experience. After this trip, I found a new hobby\/interest and figured the timing made sense to talk about my experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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              My parents never took me skiing as winters were usually filled with school sports (Basketball) between me and my sister. Going into 7th<\/sup> grade I made a new friend that went skiing. After hanging out for a couple months, it got to the time of the year when the snow started to fall. Eventually my friend asked me to go skiing at Red Lodge and I of course accepted. I never had gone before, but I was always able to be competent when starting a new sport. This led to over confidence when it came to my abilities once we hit the mountain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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              Before we ever went up to the mountain at Red Lodge, my buddy asked me if I had gone before. I told him I had never gone before, but after a few tips from him I should be alright. He was a very good skier according to him, so I figured some tips from him would help. After getting off the first chairlift accident free, we went down our first run and everything went smoothly. Feeling confident, I said, \u201cLet\u2019s go down something harder than that!\u201d. My buddy laughs, and says, \u201cokay, follow me\u201d. After his laugh I remember having a little doubt. We got up to a different run and reality hit me. Technique is a huge component in skiing down harder runs if you want to keep speed and not fall over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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              As the first snowflakes drop down near me in Billings Montana, I am reminded of a memory that takes place during a skiing trip I took with a friend of mine. I did not start skiing at a young age, in fact this memory is the about the first time I went skiing. Many… Continue reading Winter Time Delight<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11640,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/thelastdance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/thelastdance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/thelastdance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/thelastdance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/thelastdance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/thelastdance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/thelastdance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/thelastdance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/thelastdance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/thelastdance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}