{"id":16550,"date":"2016-03-09T09:07:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T17:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/countdown-begins-for-100th-nenana-ice-classic\/"},"modified":"2016-03-09T09:07:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T17:07:35","slug":"countdown-begins-for-100th-nenana-ice-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/countdown-begins-for-100th-nenana-ice-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown begins for 100th Nenana Ice Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FAIRBANKS \u2014<\/strong> A tripod has been erected on the Tanana River for the 100th time since Alaska began its most popular guessing game, the Nenana Ice Classic.<\/p>\n<p>The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported the 26-foot tripod was raised Sunday. People have until April 5 to submit their guesses on the exact date and time the river will push the tripod downstream and stop a connected clock on shore.<\/p>\n<p>Manager of the classic Cherrie Forness says there\u2019s usually up to 290,000 guesses each year.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the ice went out on the Tanana River at 2:25 p.m. on April 24 (the game observes standard time, not daylight). Twenty-eight winners split the $330,000 jackpot.<\/p>\n<p>The first Nenana Ice Classic in 1917 started when railroad workers bet on when ice would move on the river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRBANKS \u2014 A tripod has been erected on the Tanana River for the 100th time since Alaska began its most popular guessing game, the Nenana Ice Classic. The Fairbanks Daily <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/\">News<\/a>-Miner reported the 26-foot tripod was raised Sunday. People have until April 5 to submit their guesses on the exact date and time the river [&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-16550","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\/16550","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=16550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16550"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}