{"id":13680,"date":"2016-04-26T08:04:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T15:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/ice-goes-out-on-tanana-river-ending-nenana-ice-classic\/"},"modified":"2016-04-26T08:04:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T15:04:14","slug":"ice-goes-out-on-tanana-river-ending-nenana-ice-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/ice-goes-out-on-tanana-river-ending-nenana-ice-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice goes out on Tanana River ending Nenana Ice Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 The ice has gone out on the Tanana River, marking an end to the Nenana Ice Classic.<\/p>\n<p>The guessing game ended Saturday at 3:39 p.m. Alaska Standard Time.<\/p>\n<p>The game dates back to 1917, the first attempt for people to predict when winter ice would break up on the Tanana River in Nenana. People now pay $2.50 per ticket to guess the correct time the river pushes the wooden tripod downstream and stops a connected clock on shore.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s jackpot is $300,000. Anyone who correctly guessed the moment the ice would move will split the pot.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, 28 winners split a $330,000 jackpot.<\/p>\n<p>April 20 is the earliest the tripod has moved. May 20 is the latest date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 The ice has gone out on the Tanana River, marking an end to the Nenana Ice Classic. The guessing game ended Saturday at 3:39 p.m. Alaska Standard Time. The game dates back to 1917, the first attempt for people to predict when winter ice would break up on the Tanana River in Nenana. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-13680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13680"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}