{"id":115998,"date":"2016-03-07T14:48:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T21:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=115998"},"modified":"2016-03-07T14:48:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T21:48:09","slug":"is-snowboarding-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=115998","title":{"rendered":"Is snowboarding dying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you tuned into the Burton U.S. Open of Snowboarding on Thursday, you might have noticed a unique sight: Louie Vito, a two-time X Games gold medalist, riding the halfpipe on a snowboard without a major brand logo plastered on its underside. In years past, that piece of prime advertising real estate would have surely carried the logo of a board sponsor, but now, as detailed in a new report by The New York Times, with declining sales in the snowboard industry, many riders are finding themselves without, fighting to make a living.<\/p>\n<p>The report details how, for just more than five years in a row \u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/snowboarding\/is-snowboarding-dying\/#gD7MWypwVG6dzumv.97\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you tuned into the Burton U.S. Open of Snowboarding on Thursday, you might have noticed a unique sight: Louie Vito, a two-time X Games gold medalist, riding the halfpipe on a snowboard without a major brand logo plastered on its underside. In years past, that piece of prime advertising real estate would have surely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,4,52,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-sports-business-news","category-snow","category-snowboard","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115998","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=115998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115999,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115998\/revisions\/115999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}