{"id":23777,"date":"2009-11-20T08:15:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T15:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=23777"},"modified":"2009-11-20T09:46:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T16:46:21","slug":"snowboard-david-benedek-interviews-terje-haakonsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=23777","title":{"rendered":"Snowboard &#8211; David Benedek Interviews Terje Haakonsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230; David Benedek: Looking back at the early days of your career, what do you feel is the most obvious difference with the pros of today?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Terje Haakonsen: As a rider\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6less freedom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As in what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s expected, you mean?<br \/>\nWell, obviously it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot more professional today. A sponsor wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t demand that much, they wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell you what to do throughout the season. As long as you had certain kinds of media exposure and some okay [contest] results they wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ask for more. Now, the competition is harder in general &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/fresh.snowboardermag.com\/feature\/david-benedek-interviews-terje-haakonsen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; David Benedek: Looking back at the early days of your career, what do you feel is the most obvious difference with the pros of today? Terje Haakonsen: As a rider\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6less freedom. As in what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s expected, you mean? Well, obviously it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot more professional today. A sponsor wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t demand that much, they wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23777","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\/23777","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=23777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23791,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23777\/revisions\/23791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}