{"id":3816,"date":"2006-02-13T04:10:05","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T11:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/02\/13\/olympic-literacy\/"},"modified":"2006-02-13T04:10:05","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T11:10:05","slug":"olympic-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/13\/olympic-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIn order to fully appreciate Olympic half-pipe, you got to know the lingo, so go check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outboard.org\/topics\/glossary.cfm?tabnum=1\">the glossary for such terms as these:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>McTwist<\/strong><br \/>\nAn inverted aerial where the you perform a 540 degree rotation and a flip. When done in the halfpipe, you approach the halfpipe wall riding forward, becomes airborne, do a backside 540 degree rotation while performing a front flip, and land riding forward. When done off a straight jump it&#8217;s called a Misty flip.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outboard.org\/topics\/glossary.cfm?tabnum=4\">and this:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Fakie<\/strong><br \/>\nRiding backwards. Also called riding switch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s no choking in snowboarding.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to fully appreciate Olympic half-pipe, you got to know the lingo, so go check out the glossary for such terms as these: McTwist An inverted aerial where the you perform a 540 degree rotation and a flip. When done in the halfpipe, you approach the halfpipe wall riding forward, becomes airborne, do a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/13\/olympic-literacy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Olympic Literacy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Zy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}