{"id":6534,"date":"2014-01-18T23:54:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T05:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=6534"},"modified":"2014-01-18T23:54:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T05:54:51","slug":"congrats-to-aaron-blunck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/congrats-to-aaron-blunck\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to Aaron Blunck"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6535\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6535\" style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Aaron+Blunck+Snowboarding+Freeskiing+Grand+ZHLf0vqqNRdl.jpg\" alt=\"Aaron Blunck celebrating a Grand Prix win in December. (December 19, 2013 - Source: Doug Pensinger\/Getty Images North America) courtesy of Zimbio\" width=\"475\" height=\"594\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Aaron+Blunck+Snowboarding+Freeskiing+Grand+ZHLf0vqqNRdl.jpg 475w, https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Aaron+Blunck+Snowboarding+Freeskiing+Grand+ZHLf0vqqNRdl-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Blunck celebrating a Grand Prix win in December. (December 19, 2013 &#8211; Source: Doug Pensinger\/Getty Images North America) courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimbio.com\/pictures\/pHYtHVv4UKA\/Snowboarding+Freeskiing+Grand+Prix+Day+3\/ZHLf0vqqNRd\/Aaron+Blunck\">Zimbio<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Five years ago, Aaron Blunck was a spunky Crested Butte 7th grader whom I tutored from time to time.  During  one evening session, Aaron informed me he had to write a paper about potential careers he was interested in, and what it would take to enter that career.  I pried Aaron for ideas.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to be a professional skier&#8221;, Aaron said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s awesome.  But, it&#8217;s really hard to actually make money as a skier.  It&#8217;s very rare that you could make that happen.  So, what are some other career options you might be interested in?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, Brittany.  You don&#8217;t understand.  I already know I&#8217;m going to be a professional skier.  You just wait and see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to my former student, now a 17-yr old senior, who is Olympic-bound in Halfpipe Skiing.  Kick some butt in Sochi!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, Aaron Blunck was a spunky Crested Butte 7th grader whom I tutored from time to time. During<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crested-butte","category-recent-events-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6536,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534\/revisions\/6536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}