{"id":194207,"date":"2022-06-30T00:04:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T18:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=194207"},"modified":"2022-06-30T00:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T18:34:18","slug":"suicide-six-ski-area-to-retire-name-following-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/06\/30\/suicide-six-ski-area-to-retire-name-following-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Six Ski Area to retire name following concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SOUTH POMFRET, Vt. , Jun 29 (AP) \u2014 A small ski area in Vermont has announced that it\u2019s retiring its name, Suicide Six, this summer amid growing concerns about the insensitive nature of the historical name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The resort said on its website on Tuesday that it shares those concerns and \u201cembraces the increasing awareness surrounding mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe feelings that the word \u2018suicide\u2019 evokes can have a significant impact on many in our community,\u201d the resort statement said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The resort\u2019s website said the name originally came after the man who built one of the runs on Hill No. 6 joked that skiing the steep trail would be suicide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A new name will be announced in the coming weeks for the ski area in South Pomfret, near Woodstock, which opened in 1936 and is home of the Fisk Trophy Race, considered to be a \u201cright of passage for serious Eastern ski racers,\u201d according to the resort\u2019s website<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Suicide Six Ski Area has an enduring legacy spanning nearly nine decades, and it is vital that the name better represents and celebrates what makes it a beloved and vibrant part of this community,\u201d the website said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH POMFRET, Vt. , Jun 29 (AP) \u2014 A small ski area in Vermont has announced that it\u2019s retiring its name, Suicide Six, this summer amid growing concerns about the insensitive nature of the historical name. The resort said on its website on Tuesday that it shares those concerns and \u201cembraces the increasing awareness surrounding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-194207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}