{"id":70323,"date":"2013-12-02T17:51:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T22:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=70323"},"modified":"2017-01-26T13:55:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T18:55:33","slug":"bangor-daily-news-backcountry-ski-series-creator-ben-leoni-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/12\/02\/bangor-daily-news-backcountry-ski-series-creator-ben-leoni-05\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangor Daily News profiles backcountry ski series creator Ben Leoni &#8217;05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Bangor Daily News<\/em> looks at <em>Working for the Weekend<\/em>, a new Web series <em><\/em>that follows Ben Leoni &#8217;05 and fellow backcountry skiing friends into the boondocks of the Northeast.<\/p>\n<p>Leoni, who created the series, tells the <em>Bangor Daily News<\/em> that the target audience is people like him: skiers &#8220;in their late 20s and early 30s [who] are living a more professional life. We\u2019re weekend warriors like the majority of people are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The series begins its five-episode first season at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skitheeast.net\/category\/tv\/meathead-films\/working-for-the-weekend\/\"> www.skitheeast.net<\/a> this month.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>View the trailer:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Working For The Weekend&quot; Trailer - Meathead Films\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/78836845?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Filming took place last winter, and the contributing videographers included Lincoln Benedict &#8217;09, whose own day job is as a video producer at L.L.Bean.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer with the Portland firm of Curtis Thaxter, Leoni says that backcountry skiing is &#8220;my release. You have to have a good work-life balance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, the story notes, Leoni won the Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing, the highest U.S. honor in legal writing, from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In other words,&#8221; writes Sarnacki, &#8220;Leoni works hard. So perhaps it\u2019s only natural that he also plays hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Bangor Daily News<\/em> staff writer Aislinn Sarnacki notes that &#8220;it was while attending Bates College that [Leoni] became interested in backcountry skiing and met some of this closest ski buddies, many of whom he still skis with today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2013\/11\/27\/outdoors\/portland-attorney-stars-in-backcountry-skiing-web-series\/\">View story from the Nov. 27, 2013, <em>Bangor Daily News<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The show follows series creator Ben Leoni &#8217;05 and fellow backcountry skiers as they head into the boondocks of the Northeast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":70352,"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":[7,11010,133,32,11009],"tags":[11051],"class_list":["post-70323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-arts","category-creativity","category-maine-and-new-england","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70323","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=70323"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70360,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70323\/revisions\/70360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}