{"id":1343,"date":"2009-11-24T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/24\/stephen-colbert-hits-the-skids-in-lake-placid\/"},"modified":"2009-11-24T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T13:26:00","slug":"stephen-colbert-hits-the-skids-in-lake-placid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/24\/stephen-colbert-hits-the-skids-in-lake-placid\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert hits the skids in Lake Placid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian and political satirist Stephen Colbert was in Lake Placid over the weekend.  He compared riding with the US Olympic bobsled team to riding in a Thunderbird jet fighter.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the AP treatment:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>With the crowd at the finish line chanting his name, Colbert hopped into the third [bobsled crew] slot normally manned by Steve Mesler and tucked in tight between Justin Olsen and brakeman Curtis Tomasevicz.<\/p>\n<p>About a minute later, Colbert emerged unscathed but breathing hard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having won today&#8217;s competition, you are today the fastest in the world at this,&#8221; Colbert said to Holcomb and his team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had to pick the fastest team. Thank you. It felt like I was being hit in the head with ice hammers. It was like losing the worst snowball fight of your life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<embed type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' src='http:\/\/baltimoresun.vid.trb.com\/player\/PaperVideoTest.swf' height='420' width='280'><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian and political satirist Stephen Colbert was in Lake Placid over the weekend. He compared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}