{"id":16323,"date":"2009-07-12T13:50:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T20:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16323"},"modified":"2012-08-05T16:14:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T23:14:57","slug":"skateboard-kobe-snoop-dogg-drop-in-on-maloof-money-cup-burnquist-rides-rail-to-top-spot-in-vert-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16323","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard &#8211; Kobe, Snoop Dogg drop in on Maloof Money Cup; Burnquist rides rail to top spot in vert semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">COSTA MESA, Calif. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Kobe Bryant and Snoop Dogg gave the Maloof Money Cup skateboarding championships some celebrity buzz.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bob Burnquist gave it some good skating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Burnquist, best known as the guy who rode a skateboard into the Grand Canyon three years ago, had the best score in the semifinals of the vert competition Saturday afternoon at the Orange County Fairgrounds. He and five others advanced to the finals on Sunday. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll join Pierre-Luc Gagnon, who as the defending champion was prequalified all the way to the finals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Burnquist appears ready to give Gagnon a run for the $75,000 top prize&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/e\/2009\/07\/12\/kobe-snoop-dogg-drop-in-on-maloof-money-cup-burnquist-rides-rail-to-top-spot-in-vert-semis-15914\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COSTA MESA, Calif. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Kobe Bryant and Snoop Dogg gave the Maloof Money Cup skateboarding championships some celebrity buzz.\u00c2\u00a0 Bob Burnquist gave it some good skating. Burnquist, best known as the guy who rode a skateboard into the Grand Canyon three years ago, had the best score in the semifinals of the vert competition Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-skateboard-mountain-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16323","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=16323"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68007,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16323\/revisions\/68007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}