{"id":18773,"date":"2009-08-16T14:34:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T21:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=18773"},"modified":"2009-08-16T14:34:51","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T21:34:51","slug":"skateboard-dew-tour-only-a-few-athletes-make-big-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=18773","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard BMX &#8211; Dew Tour: Only a few athletes make big bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dew Tour athletes routinely perform jaw-dropping tricks because they love the sport. But as professionals, they also do it for the money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some of the 150 competitors in Portland for the past few days make a fabulous living, most of it coming through endorsements, exhibitions and business ownership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Dew Tour&#8217;s prize purse is $2.5 million, including year-end bonuses in 2009, and few are getting rich off the contest earnings. First prize in each discipline in Portland is $15,000, but most of the athletes will collect a check for less than $1,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At the top end of the earnings pile is skateboard sensation Ryan Sheckler, who earned &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/sports\/index.ssf\/2009\/08\/dew_tour_only_a_few_athletes_m.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dew Tour athletes routinely perform jaw-dropping tricks because they love the sport. But as professionals, they also do it for the money. Some of the 150 competitors in Portland for the past few days make a fabulous living, most of it coming through endorsements, exhibitions and business ownership. The Dew Tour&#8217;s prize purse is $2.5 [&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-18773","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\/18773","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=18773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18775,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18773\/revisions\/18775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}