{"id":1273,"date":"2009-02-11T09:58:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T05:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2009-03-17T20:46:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T03:46:21","slug":"us-snowboarder-at-top-of-fame-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1273","title":{"rendered":"Snowboard &#8211; U.S. snowboarder at top of fame mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1274\" title=\"white350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/white350.jpg\" alt=\"white350\" width=\"188\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/white350.jpg 188w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/white350-104x150.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Forget about downhill skiers, hockey players and figure skaters. The most famous \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and marketable \u00e2\u20ac\u201d athlete expected to go for gold at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler is a snowboarder.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s much more likely you know him, and his mop of long, curly red hair, from magazine covers or Hewlett-Packard Co. commercials than for his seemingly impossible 1260s \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 31\/2 full rotations, picture a spinning top \u00e2\u20ac\u201d as he explodes from the steep walls of a snowboard halfpipe at the X Games.<\/p>\n<p>Shaun White, already a star before gold at the Turin Games in 2006 launched him to &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20090211.wsptwhite11\/GSStory\/GlobeSportsOther\/home\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget about downhill skiers, hockey players and figure skaters. The most famous \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and marketable \u00e2\u20ac\u201d athlete expected to go for gold at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler is a snowboarder. It&#8217;s much more likely you know him, and his mop of long, curly red hair, from magazine covers or Hewlett-Packard Co. commercials than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273","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\/1273","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=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4659,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}