{"id":2455675,"date":"2020-03-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=322420"},"modified":"2020-03-12T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:00:00","slug":"meet-your-liftie-kristiana-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/meet-your-liftie-kristiana-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Your Liftie: Kristiana King"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/liftie-atw-031220-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/liftie-atw-031220-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/liftie-atw-031220-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/liftie-atw-031220-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/liftie-atw-031220-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/liftie-atw-031220.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_InfoBox_Body\"><strong>Name:<\/strong> Kristiana King<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_InfoBox_Body\"><strong>Age:<\/strong> 24<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\"><strong>Where did you move to Aspen from:<\/strong> South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\"><strong>Lift location:<\/strong> Silver Queen Gondola, Aspen Mountain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\"><strong>How long have you worked as a liftie?<\/strong> This is my first season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\"><strong>What inspired you to come out to Aspen?<\/strong> I was in Yellowstone for the summer and so I wanted to do something else seasonal and I thought Aspen would be really cool, come snowboarding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\"><strong>Do you ski or snowboard?<\/strong> Snowboard. I\u2019ve (been snowboarding) for three or four years but not regularly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\"><strong>Do you live in town?<\/strong> I do. I live in employee housing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\"><strong>How do you stay warm working at the lift?<\/strong> Handwarmers and layers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\"><strong>What has surprised you about Aspen?<\/strong> The beauty, which that\u2019s not really surprising because I know that, but the people are really cool. Everyone that I have met has been really nice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/meet-your-liftie-kristiana-king\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Kristiana King Age: 24 Where did you move to Aspen from: South Carolina. Lift location: Silver Queen Gondola, Aspen Mountain. How long have you worked as a liftie? This is my first season. What inspired you to come out to Aspen? I was in Yellowstone for the summer and so I wanted to do [&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-2455675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 11:01:51","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\/2455675","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=2455675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}