{"id":113399,"date":"2018-02-21T14:51:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=113399"},"modified":"2018-08-02T14:49:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T18:49:55","slug":"video-ski-jumping-off-mount-david-in-the-1930s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/21\/video-ski-jumping-off-mount-david-in-the-1930s\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Watch ski jumping off Mount David in 1936"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ski jumpers at the Olympics travel hundreds of feet; students who launched themselves from the modest jump at the base of Mount David in the 1930s flew far fewer feet.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the spectacle was no less grand, or less popular, judging from the crowds who gathered between Cheney House and the President&#8217;s House to watch these jumpers. These clips, from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, are from the 1936 Winter Carnival.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ski jumping off Mount David in the 1930s\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/256832236?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spectacle of ski jumping from Mount David in 1936 was no less grand, or less popular, than the Olympic version. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":113411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24,11012],"tags":[6081,6164,10834,9281],"class_list":["post-113399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-student-life","tag-mount-david","tag-muskie-archives-and-special-collections-library","tag-video","tag-winter-carnival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113399"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113413,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113399\/revisions\/113413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}