{"id":66259,"date":"2026-02-13T09:56:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/curlings-uncle-54-year-old-lawyer-who-called-out-ice-becomes-oldest-us-winter-olympian\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:56:41","slug":"curlings-uncle-54-year-old-lawyer-who-called-out-ice-becomes-oldest-us-winter-olympian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/curlings-uncle-54-year-old-lawyer-who-called-out-ice-becomes-oldest-us-winter-olympian\/","title":{"rendered":"Curling\u2019s uncle: 54-year-old lawyer who called out ICE becomes oldest US Winter Olympian"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Alternate Rich Ruohonen subs in during US match<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Minnesota native is a six-time attorney of the year<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>On events in home state: \u2018There\u2019s no shades of gray\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The stakes were low \u2013 and the time ripe \u2013 for a 54-year-old personal injury lawyer and six-time winner of \u201cMinnesota Attorney of the Year\u201d to make Olympic history.<\/p>\n<p>It was the end of the US men\u2019s curling match against Switzerland on Thursday and they were down 8-2.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/13\/rich-ruohonen-curling-oldest-usa-olympian-ice-minnesota\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternate Rich Ruohonen subs in during US match Minnesota native is a six-time attorney of the year On events in home state: \u2018There\u2019s no shades of gray\u2019 The stakes were low \u2013 and the time ripe \u2013 for a 54-year-old personal injury lawyer and six-time winner of \u201cMinnesota Attorney of the Year\u201d to make Olympic &#8230; <a title=\"Curling\u2019s uncle: 54-year-old lawyer who called out ICE becomes oldest US Winter Olympian\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/curlings-uncle-54-year-old-lawyer-who-called-out-ice-becomes-oldest-us-winter-olympian\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Curling\u2019s uncle: 54-year-old lawyer who called out ICE becomes oldest US Winter Olympian\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}