{"id":2361,"date":"2012-07-09T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2012-07-09T22:59:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T02:59:44","slug":"urban-skiing-above-the-arctic-circle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/09\/urban-skiing-above-the-arctic-circle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban skiing above the Arctic Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"[iframe_loader src=&#8221;http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/44652785&#8243; width=&#8221;600&#8243; height=&#8221;338&#8243;]\n<p>Not unlike the video of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/?p=1988\" target=\"_blank\">tiny Jackson Hole<\/a>, I love a good ski movie. Combining it with post-industrial soviet urban landscapes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Murmansk_Oblast\" target=\"_blank\">Murmansk Oblast<\/a> &#8211; even better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/arts-and-lifestyle\/2012\/06\/insane-free-skiing-urban-ruins-industrial-russia\/2379\/#\" target=\"_blank\">Hat tip to the folks at Atlantic Cities<\/a> for finding it. It took me a while to figure out how to fix the WordPress iframe loader, but I can now embed Vimeo stuff again.<\/p>\n<p>More from these Finns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freestyletv.net\/nipwitz-episodes\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; in old\u00a0Scandinavian\u00a0mining towns:<\/p>\n[iframe_loader src=&#8221;http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/22300621&#8243; width=&#8221;600&#8243; height=&#8221;338&#8243;]\n<p>&#8230;and in Sarajevo, including some transit-oriented skiing:<\/p>\n[iframe_loader src=&#8221;http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/39202260&#8243; width=&#8221;600&#8243; height=&#8221;338&#8243;]\n<p>Video credits:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/44652785\">Nipwitz &#8211; Russia<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/flatlightfilms\">Flatlight Films<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/22300621\">Nipwitz Two<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/flatlightfilms\">Flatlight Films<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/39202260\">Nipwitz &#8211; Sarajevo<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/flatlightfilms\">Flatlight Films<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[iframe_loader src=&#8221;http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/44652785&#8243; width=&#8221;600&#8243; height=&#8221;338&#8243;] Not unlike the video of tiny Jackson Hole, I love a good ski movie. Combining it with post-industrial soviet urban landscapes from the Murmansk Oblast &#8211; even better. Hat tip to the folks at Atlantic Cities for finding it. It took me a while to figure out how to fix the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[167,346,153],"class_list":["post-2361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-russia","tag-sarajevo","tag-skiing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pHcGQ-C5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions\/2378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}