{"id":1998,"date":"2015-03-25T16:54:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T15:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2015-03-25T16:54:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T15:54:48","slug":"throw-away-ski-poles-use-pair-crutches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/news\/throw-away-ski-poles-use-pair-crutches\/","title":{"rendered":"Throw away those ski poles and use a pair of crutches!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/davos.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"437\" alt=\"Parsenn ski area in Davos\" class=\"alignnone\" \/>Apparently ski resorts should introduce dedicated &#8216;golden&#8217; slopes for older and slower skiers to avoid people quitting the sport, said one of the bosses of Switzerland Tourism at the second annual International Ski Travel Market meeting in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/davos.php\" title=\"Davos ski resort hosted ski industry shindig\" target=\"_blank\">Davos<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Urs Eberhard said skiers are getting older and giving up earlier, with one in five skiers who quit giving up because they no longer felt safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently ski resorts should introduce dedicated &#8216;golden&#8217; slopes for older and slower skiers to avoid people quitting the sport, said one of the bosses of Switzerland Tourism at the second annual International Ski Travel Market meeting in Davos earlier this week. Urs Eberhard said skiers are getting older and giving up earlier, with one in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/news\/throw-away-ski-poles-use-pair-crutches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Throw away those ski poles and use a pair of crutches!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[8,37,74,180,113,40],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-davos","tag-ski","tag-ski-resort","tag-ski-resorts","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2023,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions\/2023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}