{"id":1021,"date":"2009-02-10T21:29:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T17:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2009-02-25T21:31:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T17:31:41","slug":"white-will-be-brightest-at-cypress-american-icon-slated-to-compete-in-halfpipe-on-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1021","title":{"rendered":"White will be brightest at Cypress &#8211; American icon slated to compete in halfpipe on weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1022\" title=\"56582902\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/white-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"56582902\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>American superstar snowboarder and defending Olympic gold medallist Shaun White is a confirmed competitor for this weekend&#8217;s halfpipe event at Cypress Mountain.<\/p>\n<p>A two-sport athlete, White was the first person to compete at both the Winter and Summer X Games in two different sports and is an icon for legions of snowboarders.<\/p>\n<p>White was born with a heart defect known as Tetralogy of Fallot and needed two surgeries to help fix it. But a heart problem couldn&#8217;t slow him down&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/Health\/White+will+brightest+Cypress\/1273193\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American superstar snowboarder and defending Olympic gold medallist Shaun White is a confirmed competitor for this weekend&#8217;s halfpipe event at Cypress Mountain. A two-sport athlete, White was the first person to compete at both the Winter and Summer X Games in two different sports and is an icon for legions of snowboarders. White was born [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow","category-snowboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}