{"id":2039,"date":"2015-04-08T18:20:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T16:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:20:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T16:20:37","slug":"swiss-take-on-us-skiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/news\/swiss-take-on-us-skiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss take on US Skiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R-l59gZKLEI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe skit, from RTS, probably says more about a type of person who goes to Verbier than Americans in general. I remember once hearing a couple of Hoorays in a gondola at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/verbier.php\" title=\"Verbier\" target=\"_blank\">Verbier<\/a> waxing lyrical about different makes of ski and the importance of certain types of boot and binding, only to see them gingerly snow-ploughing down the slopes.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you I did meet one American resident of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/anzere.php\" title=\"Anzere\" target=\"_blank\">Anz\u00e8re<\/a> the other week who, without a touch of irony, told me he ran Europe from his chalet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The skit, from RTS, probably says more about a type of person who goes to Verbier than Americans in general. I remember once hearing a couple of Hoorays in a gondola at Verbier waxing lyrical about different makes of ski and the importance of certain types of boot and binding, only to see them gingerly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/news\/swiss-take-on-us-skiers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swiss take on US Skiers&#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":[269,59,270,37,10],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anzere","tag-chalet","tag-jeff-randl","tag-ski","tag-verbier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039","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=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2041,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions\/2041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}