{"id":360,"date":"2008-12-15T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/12\/15\/1980-olympic-great-heiden-still-rankles\/"},"modified":"2008-12-15T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T12:47:00","slug":"1980-olympic-great-heiden-still-rankles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/12\/15\/1980-olympic-great-heiden-still-rankles\/","title":{"rendered":"1980 Olympic great Heiden still rankles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in New York City over the weekend and stumbled into a gallery in Greenwich Village that was displaying the astonishing work of Norwegian painter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vebjorn-sand.com\/paintings.html\">Verbjorn Sand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We got to talking and I mentioned that I live near Lake Placid and the (otherwise uber-charming) Norwegians bristled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, we know Lake Placid,&#8221; one fellow said.  &#8220;Eric Heiden, right?  He beat out Norwegians in 1980 to win his five gold skating medals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was all very good-humored, but there was some authentic grudgery going on.  I sort of wish Americans cared that much about winter sports&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in New York City over the weekend and stumbled into a gallery in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360"}],"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=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}