{"id":34730,"date":"2010-07-31T08:21:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T15:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=34730"},"modified":"2010-07-31T08:21:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T15:21:25","slug":"skateboard-pierre-luc-gagnon-aka-plg-nabs-two-golds-in-vert-ramp-while-shaun-white-steals-the-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=34730","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard &#8211; Pierre Luc-Gagnon, aka PLG, nabs two golds in vert ramp, while Shaun White steals the camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Heading into the Skateboarding Vert at X Games 16 all the pre-event hype was focused on Shaun White&#8217;s long-awaited return to the skateboard halfpipe. The golden boy of the Vancouver games was hoping to come back and put on a show&#8230;which he did. But White was outdone by skateboarding&#8217;s most dominant vert rider today, Pierre Luc-Gagnon, aka PLG, who took home two gold medals from the Staples Center Friday night: Skateboard Vert and Best Trick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">All the while, the Canadian did all he could to emerge from White&#8217;s giant X Games shadow. There, however, he didn&#8217;t succeed\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/blog\/19398\/plg+nabs+two+golds+in+vert+ramp+while+shaun+white+steals+the+camera\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heading into the Skateboarding Vert at X Games 16 all the pre-event hype was focused on Shaun White&#8217;s long-awaited return to the skateboard halfpipe. The golden boy of the Vancouver games was hoping to come back and put on a show&#8230;which he did. But White was outdone by skateboarding&#8217;s most dominant vert rider today, Pierre [&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-34730","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\/34730","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=34730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34731,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34730\/revisions\/34731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}