{"id":18969,"date":"2010-10-25T05:32:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T12:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18969"},"modified":"2010-10-25T08:38:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T15:38:13","slug":"lovelands-opens-on-eight-inches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18969","title":{"rendered":"Loveland Opens On Eight Inches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/loveland_open.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/loveland_open.jpg','popup','width=720,height=478,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/loveland_open-tm.jpg\" height=\"285\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Loveland Open\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skiloveland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Loveland Ski Area<\/a><\/strong> officially ripped open Colorado&#8217;s 2010-2011 season on Sunday, October 24, 2010 and look who was on the first chair: snowboarders, of course. As sometime Colorado local <strong>Todd Richards<\/strong> said yesterday <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/btoddrichards\/status\/28596879586\" target=\"_blank\">on Twitter<\/a><\/strong>: &#8220;Its officially open season on the white ribbon of death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s opening was a little later than last, but it didn&#8217;t seem to bother anyone according to the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/ci_16424673\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Post<\/a><\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a really strong turnout,&#8221; Loveland director of marketing John Sellers said. . . &#8220;Everyone&#8217;s been saying that the snow&#8217;s riding great,&#8221; Sellers said. . . . Eight inches of natural snow fell on the slopes in the two days leading up to the opening, making for good conditions on the big day, Sellers said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just tempting enough to lure snowboarders out into the trees on those brand new boards. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skiloveland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Loveland Ski Area<\/a><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/ci_16424673\" target=\"_blank\">The Denver Post<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loveland Ski Area officially ripped open Colorado&#8217;s 2010-2011 season on Sunday, October 24, 2010 and look who was on the first chair: snowboarders, of course. As sometime Colorado local Todd Richards said yesterday on Twitter: &#8220;Its officially open season on the white ribbon of death.&#8221; This year&#8217;s opening was a little later than last, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18969"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18969"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19014,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18969\/revisions\/19014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}