{"id":19801,"date":"2009-08-29T18:47:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T01:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=19801"},"modified":"2011-03-20T20:24:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T03:24:48","slug":"surfing-snowboard-surfer-swaps-waves-for-snow-in-bid-for-olympic-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=19801","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Snowboard &#8211; Surfer swaps waves for snow in bid for Olympic gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">WITH a fringe of blond hair sticking out from beneath his hoodie, 19-year-old Nate Johnstone looks like he should be carving through the waves at his home break at Mona Vale, on Sydney&#8217;s northern beaches, rather than carving up snow in the half-pipe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But Johnstone&#8217;s path from Sydney led not to the ocean but to the mountains and he has emerged as Australia&#8217;s hottest male snowboarding prospect just in time for February&#8217;s Winter Olympics in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">His father&#8217;s best mate lured the family to the snow when he was a child and Johnstone never left, at least in his mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He learned to ride a snowboard at 10, not long after the discipline made its Olympic debut in Nagano in 1998, and was quickly identified as an outstanding prospect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rip Curl also &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,25197,25995759-2722,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WITH a fringe of blond hair sticking out from beneath his hoodie, 19-year-old Nate Johnstone looks like he should be carving through the waves at his home break at Mona Vale, on Sydney&#8217;s northern beaches, rather than carving up snow in the half-pipe. But Johnstone&#8217;s path from Sydney led not to the ocean but to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,52,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow","category-snowboard","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19801","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=19801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46678,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19801\/revisions\/46678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}