{"id":55,"date":"2005-01-15T23:30:39","date_gmt":"2005-01-15T23:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getasportsite.com\/ryanhellyer\/2007\/01\/15\/skating-in-the-rockies\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T19:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T18:05:12","slug":"skating-in-the-rockies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/2005\/skating-in-the-rockies\/","title":{"rendered":"Skating in the Rockies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Christmas, my friend Mike Boyle took me ice skating in the Rocky Mountains \ud83d\ude42 The weather was great, well as great as minus 20 degrees can be, and there was HEAPS of ice. 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