{"id":22567,"date":"2023-01-17T15:43:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T20:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22567"},"modified":"2023-01-17T15:43:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T20:43:37","slug":"shadows-of-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/shadows-of-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadows of Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe 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=%23e6e6e6&amp;d=portland_monthly_magazine_winterguide_2023-reduced&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=42&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" 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 allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Though the experience wasn\u2019t what any of us expected, we\u2019re so proud she was representing us.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>Interview by Siona Henze<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Sophia Laukli started skiing when she was two and competed in her first race at three. Now, at 22, the Yarmouth High School graduate has numerous World Cup races, an NCAA title (Individual Champion, Women\u2019s 15K Freestyle) for the University of Utah, and the 2022 Winter Olympics under her belt. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><strong>How did you get hooked on cross-country skiing?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Because my dad\u2019s from Norway, we went there a ton, and I skied a lot in Norway growing up.<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Laukli-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Laukli-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Laukli-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Laukli-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Laukli-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Laukli-620x324.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Laukli.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the experience wasn\u2019t what any of us expected, we\u2019re so proud she was representing us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22569,"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":[8],"tags":[1271],"class_list":["post-22567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-winterguide-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22567","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=22567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22570,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22567\/revisions\/22570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}