{"id":20711,"date":"2021-12-01T17:21:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T22:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20711"},"modified":"2021-12-01T17:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T22:21:26","slug":"breezy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/breezy\/","title":{"rendered":"Breezy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position:relative;padding-top:max(60%,326px);height:0;width:100%\"><iframe sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"position:absolute;border:none;width:100%;height:100%;left:0;right:0;top:0;bottom:0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23ebebeb&#038;d=portland_magazine_dec21_issuu&#038;hideIssuuLogo=true&#038;pageNumber=106&#038;u=portlandmagazine\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">By Bruce Pratt<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhat\u2019s your racing experience?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI was born while Dad was stationed in Germany. Learned to ski and did some kid racing at Garmisch, and I\u2019ve skied Brig and Val D\u2019Is\u00e8re. We were transferred to North Carolina when I was ten. We skied some weekends at Beech or Sugar Mountain, but their seasons are short. When Dad retired, we moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where my mom\u2019s from. I raced for Bousquet while I was in high school but was more interested in girls than slalom then, which is the only event you get good at in the Berkshires.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cWorks for me.\u201d I hired him for course crew, which requires expert skiing without poles on all terrain and the ability to endure extended hours on the mountain in all weather. We shook, and I said, \u201cOrientation\u2019s Saturday. Have a place for the winter?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-20717\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/breezy-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"breezy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/breezy-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/breezy-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/breezy-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/breezy-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/breezy-620x326.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/breezy.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiction By Bruce Pratt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20711"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20759,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20711\/revisions\/20759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}