{"id":2450150,"date":"2019-10-21T14:32:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/more-lo-blows\/"},"modified":"2019-10-22T06:48:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T12:48:21","slug":"more-lo-blows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/more-lo-blows\/","title":{"rendered":"More lo blows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText EdNote\">The following letter was written in regards to Aspen Daily News writer Lo Semple\u2019s Oct. 12 column.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">OK, enough already.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">First of all, you need to start acting like you have done this before (skiing, that is; not writing \u2026 well, maybe that, too). Saturday\u2019s piece was adequately well-written, but it had the tone of someone who just arrived here for their first ski season in Colorado; perhaps someone who honed their skiing skills at some nondescript, small mountain back in Maine for a season while living in a van after recently dropping out of Denny\u2019s nutritional recipe development training program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Secondly: your admission \u2014 \u201cI know how to ski fairly well.\u201d Since this is literally true and widely recognized locally, people will read it literally and not in the self-deprecating way you intended. If you actually meant it this way, good on you! It may be the start of a worthy journey into self-realization. If not, I worry what the fallout germinating in circles of Snowmass nightlife will do to your psyche.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">And, before you get too worked up about this critique, please realize that I am half joking. Maybe only a quarter. Alright, I\u2019ll be honest: I am totally serious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Roger Marolt<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Snowmass Village<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/more-lo-blows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following letter was written in regards to Aspen Daily News writer Lo Semple\u2019s Oct. 12 column. OK, enough already. First of all, you need to start acting like you have done this before (skiing, that is; not writing \u2026 well, maybe that, too). Saturday\u2019s piece was adequately well-written, but it had the tone of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-20 02:38:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450176,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450150\/revisions\/2450176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}